[CLA-2002:470] Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - imlib

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    CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 
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    PACKAGE   : imlib
    SUMMARY   : Potential vulnerabilities in imlib
    DATE      : 2002-03-28 15:01:00
    ID        : CLA-2002:470
    RELEVANT
    RELEASES  : 5.0, prg graficos, ecommerce, 5.1, 6.0, 7.0
    
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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 1.9.13 solves both problems.
    
    
    SOLUTION
     All users of imlib should do the upgrade. Notice that the
     vulnerabilities can be exploited through programs linked to imlib
     (like the Electronic 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
    
    
    DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS TO THE UPDATED PACKAGES
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/i386/imlib-1.9.13-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/i386/imlib-cfgeditor-1.9.13-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/i386/imlib-devel-1.9.13-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/SRPMS/imlib-1.9.13-1U50_1cl.src.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/i386/imlib-1.9.13-1U51_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/i386/imlib-cfgeditor-1.9.13-1U51_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/i386/imlib-devel-1.9.13-1U51_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/i386/imlib-devel-static-1.9.13-1U51_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/SRPMS/imlib-1.9.13-1U51_1cl.src.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/imlib-1.9.13-1U60_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/imlib-cfgeditor-1.9.13-1U60_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/imlib-devel-1.9.13-1U60_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/imlib-devel-static-1.9.13-1U60_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/SRPMS/imlib-1.9.13-1U60_1cl.src.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/imlib-1.9.13-1U70_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/imlib-cfgeditor-1.9.13-1U70_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/imlib-devel-1.9.13-1U70_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/imlib-devel-static-1.9.13-1U70_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/SRPMS/imlib-1.9.13-1U70_1cl.src.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/i386/imlib-1.9.13-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/i386/imlib-cfgeditor-1.9.13-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/i386/imlib-devel-1.9.13-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/SRPMS/imlib-1.9.13-1U50_1cl.src.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/i386/imlib-1.9.13-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/i386/imlib-cfgeditor-1.9.13-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/i386/imlib-devel-1.9.13-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm
    ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/SRPMS/imlib-1.9.13-1U50_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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