Debian: DSA 304-1 Critical: lv Privilege Escalation Risk

Leonard Stiles discovered that lv, a multilingual file viewer, would
read options from a configuration file in the current directory.
Because such a file could be placed there by a malicious user, and lv
configuration options can be used to execute commands, this
represented a security vulnerability. An attacker could gain the
privileges of the user invoking lv, including root.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.49.4-7woody2.

For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed
in version 4.49.3-4potato2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem is fixed in version
4.49.5-2.

We recommend that you update your lv package.

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 ...