DSA 753-1: New gedit packages fix denial of service
Posted on: 07/12/2005 06:25 AM
A gedit security update has been released for Debian GNU/Linux
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 753-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze July 12th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : gedit Vulnerability : format string Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-1686
A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit, a light-weight text editor for GNOME, that may allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a binary file with format string specifiers in the filename. Since gedit supports opening files via "http://" URLs (through GNOME vfs) and other schemes, this might be a remotely exploitable vulnerability.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not vulnerable to this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.3-4sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your gedit 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 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------