The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1717 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Steffen Joeris
February 05, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : devil
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem type : local (remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id : CVE-2008-5262
Debian Bugs : 511844 512122
Stefan Cornelius discovered a buffer overflow in devil, a cross-platform
image loading and manipulation toolkit, which could be triggered via a
crafted Radiance RGBE file. This could potentially lead to the execution
of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.7-5+etch1.
For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.8-rc2-3+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.7.5-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your devil 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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Debian (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/devil_1.6.7-5+etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 784 00a9a200619160d990ed2a2deeb4238d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/devil_1.6.7-5+etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 8379 414a516d9fef38921dbd538d78adcac0
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/devil_1.6.7.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3013312 0d0c3842196d85c4e24bedabcd84f626
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 372974 ee2e6a0b9c8df07f1824762d551e042a
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 477468 51486ac6ff1b4cd5e7240f310873a7b4
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 320946 7a851f7411b600951c6f933008b514c9
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 271718 0a202d4d921a1a00a82b3f6f9976e1b6
arm architecture (ARM)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 297386 fb284b115a2d299e59facbfa903130aa
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 264932 39a535af14195508964c9ca1775c3132
hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 410562 e34d8590f7c2e05d6cf02a118c211655
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 347448 d21505b2fde524a40ee31f0efa12970a
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 252798 aca0fc8776489aba07f6a6a103fb52f9
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 286098 1f1bfc9efdd189ea5b430a50ca281cca
ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 481276 ad48301776addd355e4ffa46374c84d7
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 552778 bd8f6164f68262a7cce113ca541660ef
mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 377338 0ce969cf88ed85d64c03211eb2268794
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 301428 8c80a1520fe67db9f79ebcb12570bebc
mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 376332 4c9b8f756eabdd857d9a17d6a74f9b1c
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 302362 ae2dd9e16b1ef239ce1779e16bb89d3e
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 368536 e3b1f038afadaffb44ac17a78cb57f15
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 294498 129bc064f6920f5847a539b42e262e2f
s390 architecture (IBM S/390)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 310166 a4e8bfb5603d45fe62e678ac8b2affb8
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 290248 fc76306188733c38b307662e3105cc70
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 276480 1387371202c1c4d72288ba07db4dc20b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 329950 50da6f88bfeec78c9a98173a5e254730
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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