Debian: jabber Denial of Service vulnerability
Summary
A vulnerability was discovered in jabber, an instant messaging server,
whereby a bug in the handling of SSL connections could cause the
server process to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 1.4.2a-1.1woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.3-1.
We recommend that you update your jabber 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 3.0 alias woody
Source archives:
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