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Debian DSA-1839-1 Critical: Gst-Plugins-Good0.10 Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2009
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Urgent notice regarding vulnerabilities in gst-plugins-good0.10 on Debian platforms. Prompt update is essential!
It has been discovered that gst-plugins-good0.10, the GStreamer plugins from the "good" set, are prone to an integer overflow, when processing a large PNG file

Summary

It has been discovered that gst-plugins-good0.10, the GStreamer plugins
from the "good" set, are prone to an integer overflow, when processing
a large PNG file. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.


For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.10.4-4+etch1.

Packages for the s390 and hppa architectures will be released once they
are available.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.15-2.


We recommend that you upgrade your gst-plugins-good0.10 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 corre...

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