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[DSA714] DSA-714-1 kdelibs

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-714-1 kdelibs

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

KDE security team discovered several vulnerabilities in the PCX and
other image file format readers in the KDE core libraries, some of
them exploitable to execute arbitrary code. To a small extent the
packages in woody are affected as well.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.2-13.woody.14.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.3.2-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your kdelibs packages.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-714
Network Security Threat Level: High

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Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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