Debian: DSA-1656-1 Critical: CUPS Multiple Local Code Threats

It was discovered that insufficient bounds checking in the SGI
image filter may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2008-3640

It was discovered that an integer overflow in the Postscript
conversion tool "texttops" may lead to the execution of arbitrary
code.

CVE-2008-3641

It was discovered that insufficient bounds checking in the HPGL
filter may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.7-4etch5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) and the upcoming stable distribution
(lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.8-1lenny2 of
the source package cups.

We recommend that you upgrade your cupsys 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
...