Package : alsaplayer Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-4089
Luigi Auriemma discovered several buffer overflows in alsaplayer, a PCM player designed for ALSA, that can lead to a crash of the application and maybe worse outcome.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.99.76-0.3sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your alsaplayer 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 at the end of this advisory:
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 - --------------------------------