Package : zoo Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-0855 BugTraq ID : 16790
Jean-Sébastien Guay-Leroux discovered a buffer overflow in zoo, a utility to manipulate zoo archives, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when unpacking a specially crafted zoo archive.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10-9woody0.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10-11sarge0.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10-17.
We recommend that you upgrade your zoo 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 - --------------------------------