-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 550-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze September 20th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : wv Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0645 Debian Bug : 264972 iDEFENSE discovered a buffer overflow in the wv library, used to convert and preview Microsoft Word documents. An attacker could create a specially crafted document that could lead wvHtml to execute arbitrary code on the victims machine. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.1+rvt-2woody3. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your wv 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 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 650 1bbf1297d1b18bc8d771f290d63a19e0 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 7816 000dfe5f3d3b62531e41d883a99de99a http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 1247476 4a39527fc3c9ed55083d041f17bef239 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 796074 e8a3b9010649098ed74a5570171f58d5 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 618682 d2aa4cc2d736907f22ad03c21553298a Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 573460 51cf806dcdc07591cdfe4db01ec74d00 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 928044 401df471ce429992c81d2bff896fe5c5 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 662118 f7535a4046fbf400ca89093f87dfe109 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 525394 b6141b212aa00861090361b8a98d867c Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 660730 8dabdba8b633cb472d24b7ac83fa4dc4 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 655008 e76915c57ce1fbfdac469466d80068fe PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 604140 46d405566b3b129595262bb54d797d1d IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 602280 b3bd40a1f0d22ca57def2f878f729f8d Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 606078 085dc28ddfe25102a4863dd67637a3c6 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBTwnKW5ql+IAeqTIRAiElAJ49K55Y4dPPFAM3vYu/lXVS37vj6wCfdGxn kLz1B1z0duqFL6T+VE4VOyc= =KN+1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----