USN-151-4: rpm vulnerability

9 November 2005

rpm vulnerability

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Details

USN-148-1 and USN-151-1 fixed two security flaws in zlib, which could
be exploited to cause Denial of Service attacks or even arbitrary code
execution with malicious data streams.

Since lsb-rpm is statically linked against the zlib library, it is also
affected by these issues. The updated packagages have been rebuilt
against the fixed zlib.

Please note that lsb-rpm is not officially supported (it is in the “universe”
component of the archive).

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.10
  • lsb-rpm -
Ubuntu 5.04
  • lsb-rpm -
Ubuntu 4.10
  • lsb-rpm -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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