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Debian: DSA-1705-1 Urgent: OpenSSL Critical Vulnerability Notice

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Calendar Grey December 22, 2008
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Urgent update for Avahi components addressing remote DoS vulnerabilities in Debian platforms.
Two denial of service conditions were discovered in avahi, a Multicast DNS implementation. Huge Dias discovered that the avahi daemon aborts with an assert error if it encounter...

Summary


It was discovered that the avahi daemon aborts with an assert error if
it receives an empty TXT record over D-Bus (CVE-2007-3372).

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.6.16-3etch2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.6.23-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your avahi 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: 1570 8ebff455c9264d5dbee95ab9577378e5
Size/MD5 checksum: 891970 3cbc460bbd55bae35f7b57443c063640
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