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[DSA1081] DSA-1081-1 libextractor

Vulnerability Assessment Summary DSA-1081-1 libextractor Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Luigi Auriemma discovered a buffer overflow in the processing of ASF files in libextractor, a library to extract arbitrary meta-data from files, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.2-2sarge5. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.14-1. We recommend that you upgrade your libextractor packages. Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1081 Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: 18021 Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2007 Michel Arboi

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