Security hole found in junkbuster program. | Linux Today

Security hole found in junkbuster program.

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 12, 1998

From the Debian security mailing list, Wichert Akkerman writes:

We have received reports that junkbuster had a couple buffer overflow
vulnerabilities.  We fixed those in version 2.0-3.2. All later version
are also not vulnerable. The patches were backported from 2.0.2 .

We recommend you upgrade your junkbuster package immediately.

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

Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 alias hamm
-------------------------------

  This version of Debian was released only for the Intel and the
  Motorola 68xxx architecture.

  Source archives:
    ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/proposed-updates/junkbuster_2.0-3.2.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: b6f523b4a3a43761e58f98b971c0ad15
    ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/proposed-updates/junkbuster_2.0-3.2.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 3a504521a91ef2e0e33d6c3a4a2352e8
    ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/hamm/main/source/web/junkbuster_2.0.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 8b0582f3001967964343f1fa5fe4c7aa

  Intel architecture:
    ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/proposed-updates/junkbuster_2.0-3.2_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 7bb42ed33c19f49788d232b13119dc40

  Motorola 68xxx architecture:
    ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/proposed-updates/junkbuster_2.0-3.2_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: e5bb0b3e5eae51140bcbd3b43f71b4cb


  These files will be moved into
  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/*/binary-$arch/ soon.


For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .
Web Webster

Web Webster

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