Debian: DSA-1672-1 Moderate: Imlib2 Buffer Overflow Risk

debian

November 28, 2008

Julien Danjou and Peter De Wachter discovered that a buffer overflow in the XPM loader of Imlib2, a powerful image loading and rendering library, might lead to arbitrary code exe...

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow software update debian arbitrary code execution local threat imlib2

Summary

For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable
distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.0-1.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your imlib2 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 4.0 alias etch

Source archives:

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alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

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