Debian: DSA 1039-1 Low: Blender Remote Code Execution Risk

Joxean Koret discovered that due to missing input validation a
provides script is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution.

CVE-2005-4470

Damian Put discovered a buffer overflow that allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute
arbitrary code.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.36-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.40-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your blender package.


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 ...