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Debian DSA 1385-1 Critical Integer Handling Flaw in X Font Server

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2007
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Sean Larsson discovered that two code paths inside the X Font Server handle integer values insecurely, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.1-7.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xfs 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 GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 2642 002e212fb0929f6e2ff5318380b077f9
Size/MD5 checksum: 3701248 17b023c976a61f30192c17f2c0a39dc1
Size/MD5 checksum: 59123696 8e6990288c8f1a1d1e03f7c36d7185ee

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: ...

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