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Debian Security Advisory DSA 030-2 security@debian.org
Debian -- Security Information Martin Schulze
February 12, 2001
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Package : xfree86-1
Vulnerability : buffer overflow, insecure tempfile handling,
denial-of-service attack
Debian-specific: no
Architecture : only m68k
Several people have noted a number of problems in several components
of the X Window System sample implementation (from which XFree86 is
derived). Please read DSA 030-1 for a detailed description.
We recommend you upgrade your XFree86 packages immediately.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc
architectures. This advisory only covers m68k which was missing in
DSA 030-1 due to the slowliness of our m68k build box.
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
MD5 checksum: c26b2f84fb702ee6fc73518bb0f7e7ae
MD5 checksum: e0363d5a9da2b5e01cd7fbede1d8e283
MD5 checksum: 6462a334f10df17ba770eb08ef0d7ab3
MD5 checksum: 1a73a3251b7cc7d7dee035c27fba4a3b
MD5 checksum: 68371690d0cefdfb6761d951f2befa7d
MD5 checksum: 785a4647af68bc25b352dd748b30498d
MD5 checksum: 7ec146d579c2ef52549de70ef4775aaf
MD5 checksum: 6190d755ed22f44a0e7e777ada1684a5
MD5 checksum: 84b01dd5db72283a93c74500cb36a5ae
MD5 checksum: f4831d1b4128b64a173c037c2de90b12
MD5 checksum: 002a3d192fc675b76876ffce233168be
MD5 checksum: c95795a132852b968b8a273082d5e013
MD5 checksum: 990d6f19014a5cc005a61d4476581417
MD5 checksum: a61722d4035e9a0e1e1b5f67dc1a2d25
MD5 checksum: bf8598148af5de6ac25bb72aba602879
MD5 checksum: 3aac56186bcd6ad41dc18632f6c5ed3c
MD5 checksum: bcaea9f6d130461b8a3474fd2fce35f8
MD5 checksum: 9096c7da87b269dcb3bba0397307f584
MD5 checksum: 73d1b9b527d7574062ea31db8ac7b023
MD5 checksum: 7f162872735817a05d16af8bd4970301
These files will be moved into
soon.
For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory .
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