Debian 4.0 DSA-1594-1 Critical: Imlib2 Arbitrary Code Execution
debian
June 11, 2008
Stefan Cornelius discovered two buffer overflows in Imlib's - a powerful
image loading and rendering library - image loaders for PNM and XPM
images, which may result in the execu...
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.0-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your imlib2 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 4.0 alias etch
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 617750 7f389463afdb09310fa61e5036714bb3
Size/MD5 checksum: 12944 dfaa8fc191ba424ddca3d30f22e937f2
Size/MD5 checksum: 775 f4c69d4c2f3fb211dcc11efb3b21af41
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 240252 84ccb092527c92ab89d9ed512e245916
Size/MD5 checksum: 437534 3e50828b24c3...
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