The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1587-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp
May 26, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : mtr
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-2357

Adam Zabrocki discovered that under certain circumstances mtr, a full
screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool, could be tricked into executing
arbitrary code via overly long reverse DNS records.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
0.71-2etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.73-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mtr package.


Upgrade instructions
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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 4.0 alias etch
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 49648 1f32f54087c5cab59d13418277c33959
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 594 4dae747ffc1de0170d2578b1b09261ed
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 205442 8c1c9f5db2c599eea3b12bfed8b80618

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 42128 48a8e95d395b07e57852b0005e5225ff
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 57194 bd922b8c1a5891f71abbb4777faf4e63

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 52320 0d2aa3398184633044d21bdd70e23073
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 37766 7513344c840d47a8dca23e1e51d6a0cc

arm architecture (ARM)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 49510 a361681ebc93d48e24d7cca0086b6090
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 35560 69a3c71e6471813882c63e8201c34b80

hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 54772 4c92f110415d9ef79b54fe91624d892c
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 39920 fff799aabfd4b1fbd313f6512e02f765

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 34832 46c37b88fbaead1b97685aef100bdff3
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 49498 429bf4027e3adc7a6c65739972f3637e

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 51828 52fa9d983e98c382259f844869ce2a9c
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 68066 389cccac0ec00cbd3e1b32b8372f299b

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 56592 a4706a9a26ded557a35179be774cc4c2
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 42158 40220a8cc23ea78e02e63899379d9211

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 56468 e422aaae12583d2213208ea93bbf789b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 42014 8965536180263c10a21cd19f621c2f67

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 39388 40bfc501ea9369f583d17094e5afe106
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 53204 084b6accfd9f629b940b3100329e9569

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 38036 f4f59a3761e2bbc202471ad64f4aa479
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 52968 23670acdeae3170a5c9d9041b9785f32

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 49746 ccfde335d99f424062f5594160c7c584
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 35560 0e8e7a514058ec63dc283d4bb13b67cb


These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/
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