Debian: New libtk-img packages fix arbitrary code execution
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1598-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst June 19, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : libtk-img Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-0553 It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the GIF image parsing code of Tk, a cross-platform graphical toolkit, could lead to denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.3-15etch2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.3-release-7. We recommend that you upgrade your libtk-img 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 - -------------------------------Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 955 899003c10c63f4045b6df8ef32d3fafe Size/MD5 checksum: 3918119 ee19a7fdaaa64e9d85eeecd3b78bce8f Size/MD5 checksum: 242795 deb7118d93d3657201e4892c0e62e1d2 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 461706 7394a577a99522bdabcf6016dcc05de7 arm architecture (ARM) Size/MD5 checksum: 435110 96a6c430a51de8914023256029ebac06 hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) Size/MD5 checksum: 488468 78173de530e68252090369658db6dab7 i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 431784 902eaac4fba63bccf7be864ff1242aa0 ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) Size/MD5 checksum: 601570 4c004fd7d945b8f3e4591b5bf27ce0a8 mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 445292 33639ca7ed46125b98e503c2b82e34e8 mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 440938 20d279c06711eb509f42d48ac697ba9f powerpc architecture (PowerPC) Size/MD5 checksum: 452162 8e87166cc45ccbf4c0a38ee36993f472 s390 architecture (IBM S/390) Size/MD5 checksum: 457402 2857259815207722d226c8fd90e78923 sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) Size/MD5 checksum: 421954 686340dad232ce09f661569e37387b4d These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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