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Debian: DSA 1124-1 Critical: Fbgs Typo Data Loss Threat

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Calendar Grey July 24, 2006
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The Debian Security Notification raises concerns about possible user data corruption arising from a fbgs mishap. Prompt measures advised for the fbi software.
Toth Andras discovered that the fbgs framebuffer postscript/PDF viewer contains a typo, which prevents the intended filter against malicious postscript commands from working correc...
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your fbi 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 resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 735 36d0568b3c180e41cb1f6df809ff5e5b
Size/MD5 checksum: 5088 3b4e9623e4aa9d333c3aee47c42f3422
Size/MD5 checksum: 205822 7bf21eae612fd457155533a83ab075c2

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 29542 b0a4b4a73a93bda7243fea211f5ead9f
Size/MD5 checksum: 67686 303fed22421dda6d18e541425c6a945f

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