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[DSA663] DSA-663-1 prozilla

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-663-1 prozilla

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Several buffer overflows have been discovered in prozilla, a
multi-threaded download accelerator which could be exploited by a
remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim's machine. An
exploit for prozilla is already in the wild.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.6-3woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.7.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your prozilla package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-663
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 11734

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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