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Debian 3.0: DSA 560-1 Critical: lesstif Stack And Integer Overflows Fix

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Calendar Grey October 7, 2004
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Examine the vulnerabilities in Debian's lesstif, concentrating on integer and stack overflow threats. Learn the steps to upgrade your system and address these security risks
Chris Evans discovered several stack and integer overflows in the libXpm library which is included in LessTif.

Summary

Chris Evans discovered several stack and integer overflows in the
libXpm library which is included in LessTif.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.93.18-5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.93.94-10.

We recommend that you upgrade your lesstif packages.


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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Source archives:


Size/MD5 checksum: 692 a1757aae53924ec16a8582d60acfa5ec

Size/MD5 checksum: 18115 9fa1574040e20fcc8f9db88b142dfd5d

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Package: lesstif1-1
CVE ID: CAN-2004-0687 CAN-2004-0688

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