Debian Security Update DSA-5923-1 net-tools - security update

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Mohamed Maatallah discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the get_name() function in net-tools, a collection of programs for controlling the network subsystem of the Linux kernel, which may result in denial of service (application crash) or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-5923-1

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