Debian: DSA 695-1 Critical: xli Package Buffer Management Issues

A buffer overflow in the decoder for FACES format images could be
exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This problem
has been fixed in xloadimage in DSA 069 already.

CAN-2005-0638

Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has reported
a flaw in the handling of compressed images, where shell
meta-characters are not adequately escaped.

CAN-2005-0639

Insufficient validation of image properties in have been
discovered which could potentially result in buffer management
errors.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.17.0-11woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.17.0-18.

We recommend that you upgrade your xli 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
sou...