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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1931-1] New NSPR packages fix several vulnerabilities (

    From Moritz Muehlenhoff@1:229/2 to All on Sun Nov 8 11:10:02 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1931-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff November 08, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : nspr
    Vulnerability : several
    Problem type : local(remote)
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-1563 CVE-2009-2463

    Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the NetScape Portable
    Runtime Library, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The
    Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
    problems:

    CVE-2009-1563

    A programming error in the string handling code may lead to the
    execution of arbitrary code.

    CVE-2009-2463

    An integer overflow in the Base64 decoding functions may lead to
    the execution of arbitrary code.

    The old stable distribution (etch) doesn't contain nspr.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
    version 4.7.1-5.

    For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
    version 4.8.2-1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your NSPR 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 5.0 alias lenny
    - --------------------------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/nspr_4.7.1.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1258177 55c62ede0e510c6df9bfcc8ac9cffd0c
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/nspr_4.7.1-5.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1133 a0ba001408f4751f3c80f02334e188b1
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/nspr_4.7.1-5.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 28285 a3240caf8899d497312ae5f915dd353d

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d_4.7.1-5_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 145524 a953d83466dc08e5c64f3fac93dcc8c6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d-dbg_4.7.1-5_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 284688 29fdeff7a43ac466efd2ddec8497dcde
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-dev_4.7.1-5_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 313328 60eff12d86eef930d01b16ca9bcee432

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d_4.7.1-5_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 134452 e8362f7bfb9ad25178fc3b58c8888794
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d-dbg_4.7.1-5_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 290938 1bda17f94f3e960dcdad04772329ad14
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-dev_4.7.1-5_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 271976 fa0750a3a8762075901a8f06fbf21495

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d-dbg_4.7.1-5_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 276952 6a072a062f7e9c2db1b43338a3955bdc
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d_4.7.1-5_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 119436 89f1a236d10d78229627fd762bc67a3e
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-dev_4.7.1-5_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 255602 9da2dc9c312cf7901f7aeb1f710e507f

    armel architecture (ARM EABI)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d_4.7.1-5_armel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 120734 b71745bf5877be82a349885592037d78
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d-dbg_4.7.1-5_armel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 282114 cc3def69b457c54f2e13bd6c57090477
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-dev_4.7.1-5_armel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 258072 62328078c188bc87f5039c2e5a9b5674

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d_4.7.1-5_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 141442 eec30b4a587f8f93eda26b9376bb34e3
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d-dbg_4.7.1-5_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 285916 43fac9fb0eaa79036d9b302db5521781
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-dev_4.7.1-5_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 279668 db56b3a1adbdedc308936e6ef50f5260

    i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-dev_4.7.1-5_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 259796 f36c9a52738ee56aedd05e18461e0c1f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d_4.7.1-5_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 124188 adff22c50d9a64ed8bf7b6e2c2edc992
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d-dbg_4.7.1-5_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 281648 9896df215653b33de9ce1f8529c1daea

    ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-dev_4.7.1-5_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 331678 5055f6bcbcbb72a48b9c15f21149fee9
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d-dbg_4.7.1-5_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 271188 3e12dcca1457d95601c2d4991e9981f9
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d_4.7.1-5_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 184152 3575ec187b5219f9c71c6eee5a5474a0

    mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d-dbg_4.7.1-5_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 296890 5f45b168d496b884c79bfb5c46462d5f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-dev_4.7.1-5_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 279162 0b5e93aabae4bfc387c7093153abbec2
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d_4.7.1-5_mips.deb

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