Debian: DSA-1458-2 Critical Exploit Vulnerability for Xyz Software
debian
November 10, 2008
It was discovered that ekg, a console Gadu Gadu client performs
insufficient input sanitising in the code to parse contact descriptions,
which may result in denial of service.
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) and the upcoming stable distribution
(lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.8~rc1-2 of libgadu.
We recommend that you upgrade your ekg 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 4.0 alias etch
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 37320 1c357cd857b7ef675a14fe103a0965c9
Size/MD5 checksum: 514073 b4ea482130e163af1456699e2e6983d9
Size/MD5 checksum: 750 0ff1117467170af0a00db3701bfa3e30
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 75020 32743d8f1c90d89e8fa3446...
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