Debian 4.0 DSA-1422 Critical: e2fsprogs Integer Overflow Risk
debian
December 7, 2007
Rafal Wojtczuk of McAfee AVERT Research discovered that e2fsprogs,
ext2 file system utilities and libraries, contained multiple
integer overflows in memory allocations, based on ...
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed shortly.
We recommend that you upgrade your e2fsprogs package.
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: 2999 c17813eabc624458c075952683f41015
Size/MD5 checksum: 911 9dd650fdce44d6405b4b61710abefcab
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alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 201182 f88beeddc2218431fb47b17a01f7ccb1
Size/MD5 checksum: 28098 458373f4e2c8af58e2bf808e476dad25
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