Tielei Wang has discovered an integer overflow in wxWidgets, the wxWidgets
Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit, which allows the execution of arbitrary
code via a crafted JPEG file.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
2.4.5.1.1+etch1 for wxwindows2.4 and version 2.6.3.2.1.5+etch1 for
wxwidgets2.6.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version
2.6.3.2.2-3+lenny1 for wxwidgets2.6 and version 2.8.7.1-1.1+lenny1 for
wxwidgets2.8.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.8.7.1-2 for wxwidgets2.8 and will be fixed soon for
wxwidgets2.6.
We recommend that you upgrade your wxwidgets 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 up...
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