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Debian 8.04 LTS DSA-1717-1 Critical: Devil Package Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 5, 2009
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 addresses a severe memory leak in gnome-shell, potentially allowing system crash. Immediate update advised.
Stefan Cornelius discovered a buffer overflow in devil, a cross-platform image loading and manipulation toolkit, which could be triggered via a crafted Radiance RGBE file
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Summary

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.7-5+etch1.

For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.8-rc2-3+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.7.5-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your devil package.

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 4.0 alias etch

Debian (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 784 00a9a200619160d990ed2...

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