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Debian: DSA 890-1 Critical: Libungif4 Multiple Remote Threats

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2005
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 890-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze November 9th, 2005
Updated package.

Summary


Null pointer dereference, that could cause a denial of service.

CVE-2005-3350

Out of bounds memory access that could cause a denial of service
or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1.0b1-2woody1.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1.3-2sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your libungif4 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.


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