Debian 4.0 DSA-1433-1 Moderate: Centericq Remote Code Execution
debian
December 16, 2007
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in centericq,
a text-mode multi-protocol instant messenger client, which could allow
remote attackers to execute arbitary code...
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Summary
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.20.0-1sarge5.
We recommend that you upgrade your centericq 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 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 875 0e3de98bb55d5af241acbb7c42c47cd0
Size/MD5 checksum: 117817 a0d486891cbf0dbafd36acda7d329e7a
Size/MD5 checksum: 1796894 874165f4fbd40e3be677bdd1696cee9d
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 1651664 69022dfe5342b1056abca9c9b433532d
Size/MD5 checksum: 337338 b408f37c75ebff4c...
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