Debian: imlib2 unsanitised input
Summary
Marcus Meissner discovered a heap overflow error in imlib2, an imaging
library for X and X11 and the successor of imlib, that may be utilised
by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victims machine.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.5-2woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.0-12.4.
We recommend that you upgrade your imlib2 packages.
Upgrade Instructions
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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
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