Debian DSA 618-1: Critical Imlib Buffer Overflow Threat and Update
debian
December 24, 2004
Pavel Kankovsky discovered that several overflows found in the libXpm library were also present in imlib, an imaging library for X and X11
Topics Covered
Summary
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows.
CAN-2004-1026
Multiple integer overflows.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.9.14-2woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.9.14-17.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your imlib packages immediately.
Upgrade Instructions
--------------------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: imlib
CVE ID: CAN-2004-1025 CAN-2004-1026
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