Debian: DSA-1547-1 Urgent: Gnumeric Memory Leak Vulnerability
debian
April 10, 2008
Thilo Pfennig and Morten Welinder discovered several integer overflow
weaknesses in Gnumeric, a GNOME spreadsheet application
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable (sid) distribution, these problems were fixed in
version 1.8.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your gnumeric packages.
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 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1332 bf302ccff8f47985439966110044db14
Size/MD5 checksum: 16479052 da792f23bf26a69788736088e69fc7c0
Size/MD5 checksum: 358014 8daad80708cbf16cf362475437304e96
Architecture independent pac...
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