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Debian 5.0: DSA-1857-1 Critical: CamlImages Integer Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2009
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Critical resolution needed for remote code execution in CamlImages stemming from integer overflow issues. Immediate upgrade advised.
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...

Summary

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.20-8+etch2.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.2.0-4+lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:3.0.1-3.


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

Debian (oldstable)
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Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 9346 cf4767...

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