Debian DSA-1743-1 Critical: Libtk-Img Buffer Overflow Threat

CVE-2007-5137

It was discovered that libtk-img is prone to a buffer overflow via
specially crafted multi-frame interlaced GIF files.

CVE-2007-5378

It was discovered that libtk-img is prone to a buffer overflow via
specially crafted GIF files with certain subimage sizes.


For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3-release-7+lenny1.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3-15etch3.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3-release-8.


We recommend that you upgrade your libtk-img 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 ...