Debian: DSA-1390-1 Moderate: T1lib Buffer Overflow Risk Management

debian

October 18, 2007

Hamid Ebadi has discovered a buffer overflow the intT1_Env_GetCompletePath routine in t1lib, a Type 1 font rasterizer library

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow software update debian arbitrary code execution t1lib

Summary

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.0.2-3sarge1

We recommend that you upgrade your t1lib 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 3.1 (oldstable)
- ----------------------Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1697086 cc5d4130b25bb8a1c930488b78930e9b
Size/MD5 checksum: 315328 73b04c0083681da97813ced3783dbd02
Size/MD5 checksum: 717 d82a7a9aaeca3868a1c01f3588a59137

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