Debian: DSA-1498-1 Critical: Libimager-Perl Buffer Overflow
debian
February 19, 2008
It was discovered that libimager-perl, a Perl extension for Generating 24
bit images, did not correctly handle 8-bit per-pixel compressed images,
which could allow the executio...
Summary
For the stable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version
0.50-1etch1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libimager-perl 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 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 3049 e82e882633056ddef2beec5107085163
Size/MD5 checksum: 702 a2325e2e5fd0522924e1c394260fb902
Size/MD5 checksum: 757843 19cfffe047909599226f76694155f996
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 648188 54c4d2bfd5fc8db396cf8d9f30ee138e
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
Size/MD5 chec...
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