Package : gnats Vulnerability : format string vulnerability Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0623 BugTraq ID : 10609 Debian Bug : 278577
Khan Shirani discovered a format string vulnerability in gnats, the GNU problem report management system. This problem may be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your gnats package.
Upgrade Instructions --------------------
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 --------------------------------