Package : dia Vulnerability : missing input sanitising Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2966 BugTraq ID : 15000 Debian Bug : 330890
Joxean Koret discovered that the Python SVG import plugin in dia, a vector-oriented diagram editor, does not properly sanitise data read from an SVG file and is hence vulnerable to execute arbitrary Python code.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.94.0-7sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.94.0-15.
We recommend that you upgrade your dia 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 - --------------------------------