Debian 4.0 DSA 1412-2 Severe: Mono Integer Overflow Risk
debian
November 3, 2007
An integer overflow in the BigInteger data type implementation has been
discovered in the free .NET runtime Mono.
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Summary
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.2.1-1etch1. A powerpc build will be provided later.
The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your mono packages.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 2536 690ff9b73b11712dafff48f4e573d844
Size/MD5 checksum: 42815 a36c23b70d5f8c5042bae441c648f52b
Size/MD5 checksum: 19979026 b67ef657b83ca26249d7b9e9c5e7da69
Architecture independent components:
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