Debian Etch: DSA-1589-1 Critical: Libxslt Buffer Overflow Exploit
debian
May 28, 2008
It was discovered that libxslt, an XSLT processing runtime library,
could be coerced into executing arbitrary code via a buffer overflow
when an XSL style sheet file with a long ...
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.24-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libxslt 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
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