Package : gnocatan Vulnerability : buffer overflows, denial of service Problem-Type : remote
Bas Wijnen discovered that the gnocatan server is vulnerable to several buffer overflows which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the server system
For the stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.1-5woody2.
The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain a gnocatan package.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your gnocatan 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 --------------------------------