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[DSA812] DSA-812-1 turqstat

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-812-1 turqstat

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Peter Karlsson discovered a buffer overflow in Turquoise SuperStat, a
program for gathering statistics from Fidonet and Usenet, that can be
exploited by a specially crafted NNTP server.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.1woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.2sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.4-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your turqstat package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-812
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

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

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