Package : abcmidi Vulnerability : buffer overflows Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-1514
Erik Sjölund discovered that abcmidi-yaps, a translator for ABC music description files into PostScript, does not check the boundaries when reading in ABC music files resulting in buffer overflows.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 17-1woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 20050101-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your abcmidi-yaps 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 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------