Conectiva Linux Announcement: imlib

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CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 
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PACKAGE   : imlib
SUMMARY   : Potential vulnerabilities in imlib
DATE      : 2002-05-08 13:25:00
ID        : CLA-2002:481
RELEVANT
RELEASES  : 8

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DESCRIPTION
 Imlib is a library that allows X11 programs to use images of various
 file formats.
 
 Alan Cox discovered some situations where a heap corruption[1] may
 occur when processing some malformed image.
 Al Viro found that imlib was falling back to the NetPBM library[2]
 when processing some kind of images, but NetPBM is not suitable to
 process untrusted image input.
 
 An attacker could use a crafted image to exploit a program linked to
 imlib (like a mailer program or an image viewer) and cause a DoS or
 even remote code execution.
 
 This update to imlib 1.9.14 solves both problems and adds some fixes
 from the imlib developers.
 
 Notice that the update[3] for Conectiva Linux versions prior to 8 was
 released on 03/28/2002.


SOLUTION
 All users of imlib should do the upgrade. Notice that the
 vulnerabilities can be exploited through programs linked to imlib
 (like the "Electric Eyes" image viewer), so you should restart them
 in order to load the updated imlib.
 
 
 REFERENCES:
 1.http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/4336
 2.http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/4339
 3.http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000470

DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS TO THE UPDATED PACKAGES
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/imlib-1.9.14-1U8_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/imlib-cfgeditor-1.9.14-1U8_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/imlib-devel-1.9.14-1U8_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/imlib-devel-static-1.9.14-1U8_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/SRPMS/imlib-1.9.14-1U8_1cl.src.rpm


ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
 Users of Conectiva Linux version 6.0 or higher may use apt to perform 
 upgrades of RPM packages:
 - add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list if it is not there yet
   (you may also use linuxconf to do this):

 rpm [cncbr] ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br 6.0/conectiva updates

(replace 6.0 with the correct version number if you are not running CL6.0)

 - run:                 apt-get update
 - after that, execute: apt-get upgrade

 Detailed instructions reagarding the use of apt and upgrade examples 
 can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/#apt?idioma=en


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