Debian 3.0 DSA-190-1 Moderate: Window Maker Buffer Overflow

Package : wmaker
Problem type : buffer overflow
Debian-specific: no

Al Viro found a problem in the image handling code use in Window Maker,
a popular NEXTSTEP like window manager. When creating an image it would
allocate a buffer by multiplying the image width and height, but did not
check for an overflow. This makes it possible to overflow the buffer.
This could be exploited by using specially crafted image files (for
example when previewing themes).

This has been fixed in version 0.80.0-4.1.

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Obtaining updates:

By hand:
wget URL
will fetch the file for you.
dpkg -i FILENAME.deb
will install the fetched file.

With apt:
deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
added to /etc/apt/sources.list will provide security updates

Additional information can be found on the Debian security webpages
at Debian -- Security Information

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