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[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for pwlib



Gerfried Fuchs uploaded new packages for pwlib which fixed the
following security problem:

CVE-2007-4897

  pwlib, as used by Ekiga 2.0.5 and possibly other products, allows
  remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash)
  via a long argument to the PString::vsprintf function, related to
  a "memory management flaw".
  NOTE: this issue was originally reported as being in the
  SIPURL::GetHostAddress function in Ekiga (formerly GnomeMeeting).

For the etch-backports distribution the problem has been fixed in
version 1.10.10-2~bpo40+1.

For the lenny and sid distributions the problem has been fixed in
version 1.10.10-1.1.


Upgrade instructions
--------------------

If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update the packages
manually via "apt-get -t etch-backports install <packagelist>" with the
packagelist of your installed packages affected by this update.
[1] <http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions>

We recommend to pin the backports repository to 200 so that new versions
of installed  backports will be installed automatically:

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=etch-backports
  Pin-Priority: 200

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