Debian: DSA-1450-1 Critical: CUPS Memory Corruption Vulnerability
debian
December 28, 2007
It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the filename processing of
the inotify-tools, a command-line interface to inotify, may lead to
the execution of arbitrary code
Topics Covered
Summary
The old stable distribution (sarge) does not provide inotify-tools.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.11-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your inotify-tools 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 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 624 883ee55627b7becb5a9ca1a2e569281b
Size/MD5 checksum: 369780 204ef6e0b855ec4315f4f13e2d3d1e1a
Size/MD5 checksu...
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