Debian 4.0: DSA 725-1 Critical: Pcal Memory Leak Vulnerability Alert
debian
January 5, 2005
Danny Lungstrom discovered two buffer overflows in pcal, a program to generate Postscript calendars, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when compiling a calendar.
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 4.8.0-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your pcal 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
-------------------------------- Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 567 084db6ff500acb07787520fbe64fe55c
Size/MD5 checksum: 9241 dfead422c9e896806a1f3d6bf27906cd
Size/MD5 checksum: 244559 1c3a5694c465e702795ba53dbbb1f412
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 124958 4bd681850f08a22ff4e2b409c74d34fc
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: pcal
CVE ID: CAN-2004-1289
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