Debian: DSA 1021-1 critical: Netpbm Command Execution Risk
debian
March 28, 2006
Max Vozeler from the Debian Audit Project discovered that pstopnm, a
converter from Postscript to the PBM, PGM and PNM formats, launches
Ghostscript in an insecure manner, which ...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 10.0-8sarge3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 10.0-9.
We recommend that you upgrade your netpbm 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 3.0 alias woody
Size/MD5 checksum: 664 4d28f633be81630bd2845aff41590abb
Size/MD5 checksum: 53735 721ed5b2af8111f48d0ffab313fece69
Size/MD5 checksum: 1882851 0f153116c21bc7d2e167e574a486c22f
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 77934 e2...
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