Debian DSA 948-1 Critical: kdelibs Buffer Overflow Remote Threat
debian
January 27, 2006
Maksim Orlovich discovered that the kjs Javascript interpreter, used
in the Konqueror web browser and in other parts of KDE, performs
insufficient bounds checking when parsing UT...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.3.2-6.4
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your kdelibs 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: 1255 3476894f94312ebd9c2c8a09fa226b87
Size/MD5 checksum: 404799 fcd85446682b6dc93ff4f286eeaa9a66
Size/MD5 checksum: 18250342 04f10ddfa8bf9e359f391012806edc04
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 7094358 0e...
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