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Debian 3.1 DSA 1221-1 Critical Libgsf Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey November 30, 2006
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The Debian security team released advisory DSA 1222-1 to tackle the critical issue found in libpng related to a remote code execution flaw.
Updated package.
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.14.2-1

We recommend that you upgrade your libgsf 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 at the end of this advisory:

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: 837 bc96a9630b2605bdd8091a0f3f934f09
Size/MD5 checksum: 7678 23aa764ba57e0ec811916b78bf986917
Size/MD5 checksum: 572284 d3260e0411c3a972c4f5bf3f2d1fbdf3

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 107854 37c60803868436da0effcaaac0eb3261
Size/MD5 checksum: 845...

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