A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit, a
light-weight text editor for GNOME, that may allow attackers to cause
a denial of service (application crash) via a binary file with format
string specifiers in the filename. Since gedit supports opening files
via "http://"; URLs (through GNOME vfs) and other schemes, this might
be a remotely exploitable vulnerability.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not vulnerable to this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.8.3-4sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.10.3-1.
Upgrade Instructions to ward off the evil ;)
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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
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1848 99c4beadcf902ee5857c7a3150f4d0ad
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 54443 96de2c7d0d757d867f46d36490e0ee92
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 4051445 cbbd5999141d6de932a0afdd55f1aa35
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit-common_2.8.3-4sarge1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1826070 d8519b91f1a8aeba351b1eca19c17712
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit-dev_2.8.3-4sarge1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 44346 01d42b323e7ffdd2a6aba454996a5a48
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 523608 1f183dc0960c8e9405953fb0946a1f8b
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 457332 476fc39b828ffcd2224f4ce65e71afcc
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 470122 7162c0ac1f1a7ccd2a315d5b4f01f5d2
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 578896 85c408b6b41585ddb5d366a3d8ea8aea
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 505246 2436f36b3b10b36e3af1688e420de02f
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 459142 d475046c385f0ebd06912d89671f89ef
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 456504 4e3dbf6cf317c281cd5ddfd379bfa6c1
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 455104 c466bd51b370e0bfe4a0133e9f31e87c
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 473552 7f15b8f11abb2cb017bdc8a9069f1940
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 492994 d86d79670ebad24391213d3449db0dee
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 462362 f24856c85dd4f7782a7377423392db70
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
Thanks,
Abhishek Dey Das.
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