-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1214-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff November 20th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 562 a6882dd7ad872c388de651464046bff1 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 30773 0b08b9588e0a4d58e6a13ef3f857a8ba http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 453921 ace080d647b70f46fca7946e9543b79e Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 204990 cf6a9a52c90e53226eb62ce0f0d02a44 AMD64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 178114 3f878b28ab56953616cfa7819c6208d8 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 171660 7f395714932a4fa16547b69887060a75 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 183576 ff1d8233c688b444990ab658ad0adb7a Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 169100 46ed76270774df9900d24b96b0f29474 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 236388 468fe6518efd6064a76cc9796f99463d Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 152714 0518e0f6514317ae178bee63ac317b56 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 188450 64fbd5940f027516477cad9ac43150b6 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 187810 68fc3c4ecafea90c976aef7c680e9d62 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 178918 6c315fbf5b3b9523afc02cbf4425cae8 IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 176388 b04e21f014181006e2a94704e034d5ac Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 166532 23225642be076f7be8de287e00bb5735 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 v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFYg6EXm3vHE4uyloRAi7XAJ0XHPaLKrC26DYW9cRR+RmHxT7EawCdGKp/ q8tIouCIS2hZ3yE7x2O2Fy8= =sj31 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
