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Debian: DSA-1443-1 Moderate: Tcpreen Buffer Overflow - Remote DoS

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Calendar Grey January 3, 2008
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1444-2 resolves vulnerabilities in libxml2, which could result in information disclosure. Update is advised.
It was discovered that several buffer overflows in tcpreen, a tool for monitoring a TCP connection may lead to denial of service.

Summary


The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain tcpreen.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.3-0.3.

We recommend that you upgrade your tcpreen 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: 579 83c33a7131f3191048aba4b610e292ca
Size/MD5 checksum: 232290 5600968d012f8353e4e0797d4c330393
Size/MD5 checksum: 2601...

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