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Debian 3.0 DSA 548-2 Critical: Imlib Remote Code Execution Fix

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Calendar Grey October 26, 2005
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The latest imlib package for Debian addresses a potential code execution vulnerability by patching a heap overflow issue, thus prompting users to apply the recommended upgrades.
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9.14-16.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9.14-17 of imlib and in version 1.9.14-16.2 of imlib+png2.

We recommend that you upgrade your imlib1 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 GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 805 49cd4c7a41987d9962070033239443d8
Size/MD5 checksum: 277866 7ceed888b7bf492eda4a65a8c8b83fc5
Size/MD5 checksum: 748591 1fa54011e4e1db532d7eadae3ced6a8c

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