CVE-2009-0945
It was discovered that the KSVG animation element implementation suffersfrom a null pointer dereference flaw, which could lead to the execution
of arbitrary code.
CVE-2009-1709
It was discovered that the KSVG animation element implementation is
prone to a use-after-free flaw, which could lead to the execution of
arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 4:3.5.9-3+lenny2.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed
in version 4:3.5.5-3etch4.
For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4:4.0.
We recommend that you upgrade your kdegraphics 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-...
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