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Debian: DSA 913-1 Critical: Gdk-Pixbuf Remote Exploit Fix

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Calendar Grey December 1, 2005
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Elevate gdk-pixbuf version to fix various vulnerabilities found in XPM image handling, thereby improving security for Debian systems.
Updated package.

Summary


Ludwig Nussel discovered an infinite loop when processing XPM
images that allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a
specially crafted XPM file.

CVE-2005-2976

Ludwig Nussel discovered an integer overflow in the way XPM images
are processed that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code
or crash the application via a specially crafted XPM file.

CVE-2005-3186

"infamous41md" discovered an integer in the XPM processing routine
that can be used to execute arbitrary code via a traditional heap
overflow.

The following matrix explains which versions fix these problems:

old stable (woody) stable (sarge) unstable (sid)
gdk-pixbuf 0.17.0-2woody3 0.22.0-8.1 0.22.0-11
gtk+2.0 2.0.2-5woody3 2.6.4-3.1 2.6.10-2

We recommend that you upgrade your gdk-pixbuf packages.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will...

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