Package : gv Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : local(remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-5864 Debian Bug : 398292
Renaud Lifchitz discovered that gv, the PostScript and PDF viewer for X, performs insufficient boundary checks in the Postscript parsing code, which allows the execution of arbitrary code through a buffer overflow.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.6.1-10sarge1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 3.6.2-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.6.2-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your gv 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 - --------------------------------