Package : fbi Vulnerability : typo Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-3119
Toth Andras discovered that the fbgs framebuffer postscript/PDF viewer contains a typo, which prevents the intended filter against malicious postscript commands from working correctly. This might lead to the deletion of user data when displaying a postscript file.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.01-1.2sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your fbi 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 - --------------------------------