Package : streamripper Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-3124
Ulf Harnhammer from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that streamripper, a utility to record online radio-streams, performs insufficient sanitising of data received from the streaming server, which might lead to buffer overflows and the execution of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.61.7-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.61.25-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your streamripper 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 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------