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Debian DSA-3173-1 Critical: libgtk2-perl Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey February 25, 2015
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The Debian security advisory DSA-3173-1 highlights vulnerabilities in libgtk2-perl related to memory handling, which may result in denial of service or arbitrary code execution.
It was discovered that libgtk2-perl, a Perl interface to the 2.x series of the Gimp Toolkit library, incorrectly frees memory which GTK+ still holds onto and might access later, le...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2:1.244-1+deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been
fixed in version 2:1.2492-4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2:1.2492-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgtk2-perl packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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