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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