DSA 723-1: New XFree86 packages fix arbitrary code execution
Posted on: 05/09/2005 02:29 PM
New XFree86 packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 723-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze May 9th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : xfree86 Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0605 Debian Bug : 298939
A buffer overflow has been discovered in the Xpm library which is used in XFree86. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XPM image that could lead to the execution or arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.0-16woody6
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed in version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13, which is currently in preparation.
We recommend that you upgrade your xfree86 and associated 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 ---------------------------------