The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1654-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp
October 14, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : libxml2
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-3529
Debian Bug : 498768
It was discovered that libxml2, the GNOME XML library, didn't correctly
handle long entity names. This could allow the execution of arbitrary
code via a malicious XML file.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
2.6.27.dfsg-5.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.32.dfsg-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your libxml2 package.
Upgrade instructions
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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
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxml2/libxml2_2.6.27.dfsg-5.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 220443 48cafbb8d1bd2c6093339fea3f14e4a0
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxml2/libxml2_2.6.27.dfsg.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3416175 5ff71b22f6253a6dd9afc1c34778dec3
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxml2/libxml2_2.6.27.dfsg-5.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 893 0dc1f183dd20741e5b4e26a7f8e1c652
Architecture independent packages:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxml2/libxml2-doc_2.6.27.dfsg-5_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1328144 c1c5f0ceb391893a94e61c074b677ee9
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
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Size/MD5 checksum: 37980 725b1c6925e610b5843ba0ad554dc7bc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxml2/python-libxml2_2.6.27.dfsg-5_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 184754 5ccbaf07b44dcfe528167074050bf270
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxml2/libxml2-dev_2.6.27.dfsg-5_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 916830 17d71480b7e2a447dabde99c11d752fa
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Size/MD5 checksum: 881834 cac19a28b37f7afb9e07966f44ddd5b2
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
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Size/MD5 checksum: 36684 8a0265229bebf9245dc7bb7cc6f41d36
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Size/MD5 checksum: 796194 6019e59020269cca8fa8fea40f83c118
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Size/MD5 checksum: 891922 606fc28448bead2709c39a1d3e529a25
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hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)
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Size/MD5 checksum: 850210 bde343770ac9a7bd458e68a60c2b8434
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Size/MD5 checksum: 681472 d8a0611d638e0553da64a218fbcf291a
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ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
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These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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