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Debian: DSA-1998-1 Moderate: kdelibs Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2010
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Uncover the intricacies of a vulnerability in kdelibs that enables arbitrary code execution through buffer overflow, and explore the implemented solutions.
Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered a buffer overflow in the internal string routines of the KDE core libraries, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code

Summary

Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered a buffer overflow in the internal
string routines of the KDE core libraries, which could lead to the
execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your kdelibs 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-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

Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

So...

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Package: kdelibs

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