DSA 714-1 New kdelibs packages fix arbitrary code execution
Posted on: 04/26/2005 11:07 AM
New kdelibs packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 714-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 26th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : kdelibs Vulnerability : several Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-1046
KDE security team discovered several vulnerabilities in the PCX and other image file format readers in the KDE core libraries, some of them exploitable to execute arbitrary code. To a small extend the packages in woody are affected as well.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.2-13.woody.14.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.2-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your kdelibs 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 3.0 alias woody ---------------------------------