Several security related problems have been found in the xtell package, a simple messaging client and server. In detail, these problems contain several buffer overflows, a problem in connection with symbolic links, unauthorized directory traversal when the path contains "..". These problems could lead into an attacker being able to execute arbitrary code on the server machine. The server runs with nobody privileges by default, so this would be the account to be exploited.
They have been corrected by backporting changes from a newer upstream version by the Debian maintainer for xtell. These problems are fixed in version 1.91.1 in the stable distribution of Debian and in version 2.7 for the testing and unstable distribution of Debian.
We recommend that you upgrade your xtell packages immediately.
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
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These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision.
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