The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1598-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
June 19, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : libtk-img
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem type : local (remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-0553
It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the GIF image parsing code
of Tk, a cross-platform graphical toolkit, could lead to denial of
service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
1:1.3-15etch2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:1.3-release-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your libtk-img package.
Upgrade instructions
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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 4.0 alias etch
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtk-img/libtk-img_1.3-15etch2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 955 899003c10c63f4045b6df8ef32d3fafe
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtk-img/libtk-img_1.3.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3918119 ee19a7fdaaa64e9d85eeecd3b78bce8f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtk-img/libtk-img_1.3-15etch2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 242795 deb7118d93d3657201e4892c0e62e1d2
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtk-img/libtk-img_1.3-15etch2_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 461706 7394a577a99522bdabcf6016dcc05de7
arm architecture (ARM)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtk-img/libtk-img_1.3-15etch2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 435110 96a6c430a51de8914023256029ebac06
hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtk-img/libtk-img_1.3-15etch2_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 488468 78173de530e68252090369658db6dab7
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtk-img/libtk-img_1.3-15etch2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 431784 902eaac4fba63bccf7be864ff1242aa0
ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtk-img/libtk-img_1.3-15etch2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 601570 4c004fd7d945b8f3e4591b5bf27ce0a8
mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtk-img/libtk-img_1.3-15etch2_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 445292 33639ca7ed46125b98e503c2b82e34e8
mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtk-img/libtk-img_1.3-15etch2_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 440938 20d279c06711eb509f42d48ac697ba9f
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtk-img/libtk-img_1.3-15etch2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 452162 8e87166cc45ccbf4c0a38ee36993f472
s390 architecture (IBM S/390)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtk-img/libtk-img_1.3-15etch2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 457402 2857259815207722d226c8fd90e78923
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtk-img/libtk-img_1.3-15etch2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 421954 686340dad232ce09f661569e37387b4d
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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