Debian: new bmv packages fix arbitrary code execution
Summary
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 981-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff February 26th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : bmv Vulnerability : integer overflow Problem-Type : local(remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-3278 Debian Bug : 335497 "felinemalice" discovered an integer overflow in BMV, a post script viewer for SVGAlib, that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code through specially crafted Postscript files. For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-14.3. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-17sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-18. We recommend that you upgrade your bmv 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 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 565 1898d7719bc8b5c0c5de50107d52ba3a Size/MD5 checksum: 14144 34d0323edc6916afcef9496205c54be4 Size/MD5 checksum: 50755 40c881800edac6b1d2ce75ea8da6e6b4 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 21932 19eba9d127882013b807744c866d89d9 Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 569 3f041ac1b04a613eef6164f657ef7a14 Size/MD5 checksum: 13051 90f228f3dadc268c9d1e16d986c10484 Size/MD5 checksum: 50755 40c881800edac6b1d2ce75ea8da6e6b4 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 24246 ee390b0280d154d7a7ccef558d7ecca8 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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