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Debian 3.0 DSA 628-1 Moderate: Imlib2 Integer Overflow Threat

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory D
Pavel Kankovsky discovered that several overflows found in the libXpm library were also present in imlib and imlib2, imaging libraries for X11

Summary


Multiple heap-based buffer overflows. No such code is present in
imlib2.

CAN-2004-1026

Multiple integer overflows in the imlib library.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.5-2woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your imlib2 packages.


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: imlib2
CVE ID: CAN-2004-1026

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