Debian 4.0: DSA-1490-1 Critical: Tk8.3 Buffer Overflow Threat
debian
February 10, 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 of...
Summary
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.3.5-4sarge1.
We recommend that you upgrade your tk8.3 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.
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: 619 72ec50a6f7fe598dfdfa5bb6dcce26b8
Size/MD5 checksum: 27487 e8e4be4e42aa8d8aa42737e51bd00efb
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 656610 2...
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