The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1917-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Giuseppe Iuculano
October 24, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : mimetex
Vulnerability : several vulnerabilities
Problem type : remote (local)
Debian-specific: no
Debian bug : 537254
CVE Ids : CVE-2009-1382 CVE-2009-2459
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mimetex, a lightweight
alternative to MathML. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
identifies the following problems:
CVE-2009-1382
Chris Evans and Damien Miller, discovered multiple stack-based buffer overflow.
An attacker could execute arbitrary code via a TeX file with long picture,
circle, input tags.
CVE-2009-2459
Chris Evans discovered that mimeTeX contained certain directives that may be
unsuitable for handling untrusted user input. A remote attacker can obtain
sensitive information.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.50-1+etch1.
Due to a bug in the archive system, the fix for the stable distribution
(lenny) will be released as version 1.50-1+lenny1 once it is available.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), and the unstable distribution (sid),
these problems have been fixed in version 1.50-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mimetex packages.
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 (oldstable)
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Oldstable 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/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 584 4c4ac225a147438ea1bb7be1b0f65019
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 5318 5d3a2a06fecf83d573c8cbb9c778ddf0
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 401817 cdda954fc3a436daa8345ecbfdb084c3
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 154406 b525a79c4c6e92ebe5d6853261edb7d9
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 151848 b01a4cf79985dbc98aa468b27355c005
arm architecture (ARM)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 150546 8041ce35d9d2457999e217bd9ecff233
hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 148156 0f7d099d12f46f9c74a9d4863cacb676
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 143668 55db42c430e79ebd525679d72c8556f8
ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 188604 5f4c8c896998e82797bba6a0997d550c
mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 155176 c080d72fef8acd63fa27b0a5cf7688bd
mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 156068 96a3663cab62464f23ea747f679fbb57
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 145470 84ec68d2dcf0378f634f7cdc48c272d2
s390 architecture (IBM S/390)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 157512 493034d85d335c5c48358aac4fa5365f
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 146950 657d93204c670f44c337d85b5fa9a67b
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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