Debian: DSA-1292-1 Critical: qt4-x11 XSS Attack Details and Solutions
debian
May 15, 2007
ndreas Nolden discovered a bug in the UTF8 decoding routines in qt4-x11, a C++ GUI library framework, that could allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) and di...
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Summary
For the testing and unstable distribution (lenny and sid, respectively),
this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.2-2
We recommend that you upgrade your qt4-x11 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 (stable)
- ---------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1390 4c2ac9fc65dc3d31b90473d7ec038f1f
Size/MD5 checksum: 37069122 2ab1c88084f55b94809f025a8503bf18
Size/MD5 checksum: 22806 26c69455f8d09fffdfb9413a18f69174
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