Debian: DSA-1433-2 Urgent: XML Parser Input Validation Vulnerability
debian
December 16, 2007
Alin Rad Pop discovered that link-grammar, Carnegie Mellon University's
link grammar parser for English, performed insufficient validation within
its tokenizer, which could allow...
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Summary
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this package was not present.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem was fixed in version
4.2.5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your link-grammar 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: 742163 798c165b7d7f26e60925c30515c45782
Size/MD5 checksum: 669 535a962c3aefbf92b3d09bd9355d3b57
Size/MD5 checksum: 8231 fa03dfbb7a2e0a47130c9f1385eb48d3
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 267530 52ef5d6278b5f8a5a0c08...
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