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Debian 3.0 DSA 337-1 High: gtksee Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 1, 2003
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Enhance your security measures by installing the latest gtksee package on Debian to reduce the threats posed by potential buffer overflow exploits.
Viliam Holub discovered a bug in gtksee whereby, when loading PNG images of certain color depths, gtksee would overflow a heap-allocated buffer.

Summary

Viliam Holub discovered a bug in gtksee whereby, when loading PNG
images of certain color depths, gtksee would overflow a heap-allocated
buffer. This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker using a
carefully constructed PNG image to execute arbitrary code when the
victim loads the file in gtksee.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.5.0-6.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
Refer to Debian bug #76346.

We recommend that you update your gtksee 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 3.0 alias woody

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Package: gtksee

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