Debian: DSA 614-1 Moderate: xzgv Integer Overflow Remote Execution

debian

December 21, 2004

Luke "infamous41md" discoverd multiple vulnerabilities in xzgv, a picture viewer for X11 with a thumbnail-based selector

Topics Covered

security advisory debian remote execution integer overflow xzgv

Summary

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.8-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your xzgv package immediately.

Upgrade Instructions
--------------------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.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Alpha architecture:

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