Debian DSA-1542-1 Critical: LibCairo Integer Overflow Code Execution
debian
April 9, 2008
Peter Valchev (Google Security) discovered a series of integer
overflow weaknesses in Cairo, a vector graphics rendering library used
by many other applications
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.4.10-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libcairo 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 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 894 4bd02b09d90fb7dc966f9ad9e4653d74
Size/MD5 checksum: 2882781 1222b2bfdf113e2c92f66b3389659f2d
Size/MD5 checksum: 29508 df191c1acebf8b74f4dc9e9684694827
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