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A ibevent security update has been released for Debian 6 LTS



Package : libevent
Version : 1.4.13-stable-1+deb6u1
CVE ID : CVE-2014-6272
Debian Bug : 774645

The libevent library was vulnerable to a potential heap overflow in
the buffer/bufferevent APIs.

This update was prepared by Nguyen Cong who used the upstream-provided
patch. Thanks to them!
  DLA 137-1: libevent security update