Debian: DSA-1842-1 Critical: OpenEXR Code Execution Issues Fixed

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenEXR image
library, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2009-1720

Drew Yao discovered integer overflows in the preview and
compression code.

CVE-2009-1721

Drew Yao discovered that an uninitialised pointer could be freed
in the decompression code.

CVE-2009-1722

A buffer overflow was discovered in the compression code.

For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.2.2-4.3+etch2.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.6.1-3+lenny3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your openexr 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
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