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Debian 5.0 DSA-1912-2: Critical Integer Overflow Risk in Advi

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2009
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The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 addresses a buffer overflow in the imagemagick package impacting BMP, PNG, and WEBP files.
Due to the fact that advi, an active DVI previewer and presenter, statically links against camlimages it was neccessary to rebuilt it in order to incorporate the latest security fi...

Summary


For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.6.0-13+lenny2.

Due to a bug in the archive system, the fix for the oldstable
distribution (etch) cannot be released at the same time. These problems
will be fixed in version 1.6.0-12+etch2, once it is available.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.0-14+b1.


We recommend that you upgrade your advi 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 5.0 alias lenny

Debian (stable)
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Stable updates are available...

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