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[DSA1043] DSA-1043-1 abcmidi

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-1043-1 abcmidi

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Erik Sjölund discovered that abcmidi-yaps, a translator for ABC music
description files into PostScript, does not check the boundaries when
reading in ABC music files resulting in buffer overflows.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 17-1woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 20050101-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 20060422-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your abcmidi-yaps package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1043
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2007 Michel Arboi

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