Debian Lenny DSA-1747-1 Critical: Glib2.0 Code Execution Risk

Diego Petten discovered that glib2.0, the GLib library of C routines,
handles large strings insecurely via its Base64 encoding functions. This
could possible lead to the execution of arbitrary code.


For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.16.6-1+lenny1.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.12.4-2+etch1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.20.0-1.


We recommend that you upgrade your glib2.0 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
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