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Debian DSA-3525-1 Critical: Pixman Integer Overflow Remote Exploit

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Calendar Grey March 22, 2016
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The latest Debian Security Advisory DSA-3525-2 highlights a critical buffer overflow in the libc6 library that could be leveraged by malicious users from a distance.
Vincent LE GARREC discovered an integer overflow in pixman, a pixel-manipulation library for X and cairo

Summary

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 0.26.0-4+deb7u2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), the testing distribution (stretch)
and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem was already fixed in
version 0.32.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pixman 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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Package: pixman
CVE ID: CVE-2014-9766

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