Debian releases updated amd package | Linux Today

Debian releases updated amd package

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 24, 1999

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 03:06:34 +0200
From: Wichert Akkerman
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] New version of amd fixes remove exploit

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Debian Security Advisory                             security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
September 24, 1999
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The version of amd that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux
2.1 is vulnerable to a remote exploit. Passing a big directory name
to amd its logging code would overflow a buffer which could be
exploited. This has been fixed in version 23.0slink1.

We recommand that you upgrade your amd package immediately.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink –
——————————–

This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
680×0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/amd_upl102-23.0slink1.diff.gz

      MD5 checksum: 1182f8bd9ad26d171ff1295899a1460b


http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/amd_upl102-23.0slink1.dsc

      MD5 checksum: b5b842c6fa9068d5dfca426220c995f1


http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/amd_upl102.orig.tar.gz

       MD5 checksum: 76c61a893523001961437475ee2f79c5

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/amd_upl102-23.0slink1_alpha.deb

       MD5 checksum: ce3eb36f6ace8f0cd4530450d2286fce

Intel ia32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/amd_upl102-23.0slink1_i386.deb

       MD5 checksum: 6ef7be0caa75d0320f7acd61674eedcf

Motorola 680×0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/amd_upl102-23.0slink1_m68k.deb

       MD5 checksum: 7f50ac1416a4b7c316bda99d5bc42ee0

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/amd_upl102-23.0slink1_sparc.deb

       MD5 checksum: 08a00238f63f8a6cfcad011eaa5f0b39 

For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Web Webster

Web Webster

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