Package : imlib Vulnerability : unsanitised input Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0817
Marcus Meissner discovered a heap overflow error in imlib, an imaging library for X and X11, that could be abused by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victims machine. The updated packages we have provided in DSA 548-1 did not seem to be sufficient, which should be fixed by this update.
For the oldstable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.14-2woody3.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.14-16.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.14-17 of imlib and in version 1.9.14-16.2 of imlib+png2.
We recommend that you upgrade your imlib1 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 - --------------------------------