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

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Calendar Grey January 6, 2005
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Timely updates are crucial for imlib2 to reduce potential vulnerabilities and strengthen software protection.
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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