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USN220-1 : w3c-libwww vulnerability

Vulnerability Assessment Summary w3c-libwww vulnerability Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Summary : These remote packages are missing security patches : - libwww-dev - libwww-ssl-dev - libwww-ssl0 - libwww0 Description : Sam Varshavchik discovered several buffer overflows in the HTBoundary_put_block() function. By sending specially crafted HTTP multipart/byteranges MIME messages, a malicious HTTP server could trigger an out of bounds memory access in the libwww library, which causes the program that uses the library to crash. Solution : Upgrade to : - libwww-dev-5.4.0-9ubuntu0.5.10 (Ubuntu 5.10) - libwww-ssl-dev-5.4.0-9ubuntu0.5.10 (Ubuntu 5.10) - libwww-ssl0-5.4.0-9ubuntu0.5.10 (Ubuntu 5.10) - libwww0-5.4.0-9ubuntu0.5.10 (Ubuntu 5.10) Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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