Debian: DSA 1124-1 Critical: Fbgs Typo Data Loss Threat
debian
July 24, 2006
Toth Andras discovered that the fbgs framebuffer postscript/PDF viewer contains a typo, which prevents the intended filter against malicious postscript commands from working correc...
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Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your fbi 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
Size/MD5 checksum: 735 36d0568b3c180e41cb1f6df809ff5e5b
Size/MD5 checksum: 5088 3b4e9623e4aa9d333c3aee47c42f3422
Size/MD5 checksum: 205822 7bf21eae612fd457155533a83ab075c2
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 29542 b0a4b4a73a93bda7243fea211f5ead9f
Size/MD5 checksum: 67686 303fed22421dda6d18e541425c6a945f
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