Debian: DSA-1474-1 Critical: Exiv2 Integer Overflow Risk
debian
January 23, 2008
Meder Kydyraliev discovered an integer overflow in the thumbnail
handling of libexif, the EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation library, which
could result in the execution of arbitrar...
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Summary
The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain exiv2 packages.
We recommend that you upgrade your exiv2 packages.
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 resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian (stable)
- ---------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 31515 ff0fc3ef64872fbb591f7258620f5f0b
Size/MD5 checksum: 660 ed1b77214142dfedc6c6d88d475987d9
Size/MD5 checksum: 2053756 5af2256fb9895d9331684e8c1865b956
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 che...
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