Debian Etch DSA-1442-1 Critical: Libsndfile Buffer Overflow Risk
debian
December 28, 2007
Rubert Buchholz discovered that libsndfile, a library for reading /
writing audio files performs insufficient boundary checks when
processing FLAC files, which might lead to the...
Summary
The old stable distribution (sarge) is not affected by this problem.
We recommend that you upgrade your libsndfile 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 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: 857117 773b6639672d39b6342030c7fd1e9719
Size/MD5 checksum: 5465 3143afa4d8b69fe1ba9d0428d3b5b472
Size/MD5 checksum: 639 778f77063bf0aee761b5d9f7af793ced
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Si...
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