Debian alert DSA-915-1 (helix-player)
| From: | joey@infodrom.org (Martin Schulze) | |
| To: | debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org (Debian Security Announcements) | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] [DSA 915-1] New helix-player packages fix arbitrary code execution | |
| Date: | Fri, 2 Dec 2005 07:35:30 +0100 (CET) |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 915-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 2nd, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : helix-player Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-2629 BugTraq ID : 15381 An integer overflow has been discovered in helix-player, the helix audio and video player. This flaw could allow a remote attacker to run arbitrary code on a victims computer by supplying a specially crafted network resource. This vulnerability is fixed by version 1.0.6-1 in unstable. Helix-player is not currently in the testing distribution. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a helix-player package. For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.4-1sarge2. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.6-1. We recommend that you upgrade your helix-player 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/h/helix-play... Size/MD5 checksum: 908 5abe49b8d746b78b1f70016382d44a35 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/helix-play... Size/MD5 checksum: 9113 b7103af4ca93cb52cd548a4f7da43c3b http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/helix-play... Size/MD5 checksum: 18044552 a277710be35426b317869503a4ad36d7 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/helix-play... Size/MD5 checksum: 4289142 afe49d505b51edefe6b66e92720e9a62 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/helix-play... Size/MD5 checksum: 4415648 9a9ad7733abed7ffcd6c69ce366d576c 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@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDj+sxW5ql+IAeqTIRAjVHAJ974CUfmj+F9Acw124mv/KrKpkcLACfcgHJ ldeYb42HgSrGdj/KtTkdKsw= =zqfg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-announce-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org