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Debian: DSA-1890-1 Critical: wxWidgets Integer Overflow Remote Exploit

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2009
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Buffer overflow in libX allows unauthorized access through modified PNG files; patching suggested.
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

Summary

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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