Debian 4.0 DSA-1566-1 Critical: Cpio Denial Of Service Issue

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.9-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your cpio 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 GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Size/MD5 checksum: 556018 76b4145f33df088a5bade3bf4373d17d
Size/MD5 checksum: 556 fdcfe9fa17130663f3fcb21aebb52924
Size/MD5 checksum: 92775 78d1098c15d92c0d5bfe6c5dcc4e5652

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checksum: 146740 167eeae5237940f15b9eea7b1f754b65

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

Size/MD5 checksu...