Several vulnerabilities were discovered in recent versions of Qt, a
commonly used graphic widget set, used in KDE for example. The first
problem allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code, while the other
two only seem to pose a denial of service danger. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
vulnerabilities:
CAN-2004-0691:
Chris Evans has discovered a heap-based overflow when handling
8-bit RLE encoded BMP files.
CAN-2004-0692:
Marcus Meissner has discovered a crash condition in the XPM
handling code, which is not yet fixed in Qt 3.3.
CAN-2004-0693:
Marcus Meissner has discovered a crash condition in the GIF
handling code, which is not yet fixed in Qt 3.3.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.3-20020329-1woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.3.3-4 of qt-x11-free.
We recommend that you upgrade your qt packages.
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
- --------------------------------
