Debian: DSA-1522-1 Critical: Unzip Code Execution Risk Fixed
debian
March 17, 2008
Tavis Ormandy discovered that unzip, when processing specially crafted
ZIP archives, could pass invalid pointers to the C library's free
routine, potentially leading to arbitrary...
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Summary
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed
in version 5.52-1sarge5.
The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your unzip 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: 1140291 9d23919999d6eac9217d1f41472034a9
Size/MD5 checksum: 6624 f4c389ef9a5f917416c68e8c0add754c
Size/MD5 checksum: 820 d0458a4fb2dbf3f040a78ba05d760884
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 175112 ccbb3a82f15dd1b8d7c1c7d038aa97bb
amd...
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