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Debian: DSA-1503-2 Urgent: Gnomevideos Memory Leak Concern

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Calendar Grey November 21, 2007
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Ubuntu mitigates a critical gnome-shell vulnerability facilitating remote code execution through malicious image files.
Alin Rad Pop discovered a buffer overflow in kpdf, which could allow the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed PDF file is displayed.
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Summary


The old stable distribution (sarge) will be fixed later.

We recommend that you upgrade your kdegraphics 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:

Size/MD5 checksum: 9012930 944e16dde53ffdb8c25a90d951a9d223
Size/MD5 checksum: 1536 ed91f6a35e94700fecbd7a3f3f9ba534
Size/MD5 checksum: 425618 f4eefc4970bcfe9cd7ca1069135d7740

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 151474 22439252b23511a33efa70183894dcb7
Size/MD5 checksum: 19324 9e756d045ecb29f0a670cf70f1abed40

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