Debian 4.0 DSA-1832-1 Critical: CamlImages Heap Overflow Threat
debian
July 13, 2009
Tielei Wang discovered that CamlImages, an open source image processing library, suffers from several integer overflows which may lead to a potentially exploitable heap overflow an...
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Summary
For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.20-8+etch1.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.0-4+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.1-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your camlimages 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
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 8737 1616ade3176c67bc862f7672d4c056dd
Size/MD5 checksum: 1196 0407fcb4b885258c0b81e979e03df7c4
Size/MD5 checksum: 1385525 d933eb58c7983f70b1a000fa01...
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