Debian: DSA-1598-1 Critical: libtk-img Buffer Overflow Risk
debian
June 19, 2008
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 ...
Summary
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
Size/MD5 checksum: 955 899003c10c63f4045b6df8ef32d3fafe
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Size/MD5 checksum: 242795 deb7118d93d3657201e4892c0e62e1d2
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
Size/MD5 checksum: 461706 7394a577a99522bdabcf6016dcc05de7
arm architecture (ARM)
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