Debian: New gedit packages fix denial of service
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 753-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze July 12th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : gedit Vulnerability : format string Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-1686 A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit, a light-weight text editor for GNOME, that may allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a binary file with format string specifiers in the filename. Since gedit supports opening files via "http://" URLs (through GNOME vfs) and other schemes, this might be a remotely exploitable vulnerability. The old stable distribution (woody) is not vulnerable to this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.3-4sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10.3-1. We recommend that you upgrade your gedit package. 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 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 1848 99c4beadcf902ee5857c7a3150f4d0ad Size/MD5 checksum: 54443 96de2c7d0d757d867f46d36490e0ee92 Size/MD5 checksum: 4051445 cbbd5999141d6de932a0afdd55f1aa35 Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 1826070 d8519b91f1a8aeba351b1eca19c17712 Size/MD5 checksum: 44346 01d42b323e7ffdd2a6aba454996a5a48 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 523608 1f183dc0960c8e9405953fb0946a1f8b ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 457332 476fc39b828ffcd2224f4ce65e71afcc Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 470122 7162c0ac1f1a7ccd2a315d5b4f01f5d2 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 578896 85c408b6b41585ddb5d366a3d8ea8aea HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 505246 2436f36b3b10b36e3af1688e420de02f Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 459142 d475046c385f0ebd06912d89671f89ef Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 456504 4e3dbf6cf317c281cd5ddfd379bfa6c1 Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 455104 c466bd51b370e0bfe4a0133e9f31e87c PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 473552 7f15b8f11abb2cb017bdc8a9069f1940 IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 492994 d86d79670ebad24391213d3449db0dee Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 462362 f24856c85dd4f7782a7377423392db70 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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