Debian Security Advisory

DLA-899-1 feh -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

17 Apr 2017

Affected Packages:

feh

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 860367.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-7875.

More information:

Tobias Stoeckmann discovered it was possible to trigger an out-of-boundary heap write with the image viewer feh while receiving an IPC message.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2.3-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your feh packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS