Debian alert: New gnome-gv packages fix buffer overflow
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 179-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 18th, 2002 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : gnome-gv Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id : CAN-2002-0838 BugTraq ID : 5808 Zen-parse discovered a buffer overflow in gv, a PostScript and PDF viewer for X11. The same code is present in gnome-gv. This problem is triggered by scanning the PostScript file and can be exploited by an attacker sending a malformed PostScript or PDF file. The attacker is able to cause arbitrary code to be run with the privileges of the victim. This problem has been fixed in version 1.1.96-3.1 for the current stable distribution (woody), in version 0.82-2.1 for the old stable distribution (potato) and version 1.99.7-9 for the unstable distribution (sid). We recommend that you upgrade your gnome-gv package. 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 2.2 alias potato - --------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_0.82-2.1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 807 82140169547f88c38b9965be1bc9a69c http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_0.82-2.1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 8494 103905f14d882282d0e976a29111bbb2 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_0.82.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 369538 c4542420f0f7aeafea6764718b398341 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_0.82-2.1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 145076 05ebc47d64924740b4a6efced375ed00 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_0.82-2.1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 131928 44f502cc48717739484999b677b23e52 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_0.82-2.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 131118 7d2712b05b78e757568efabee83c9bc0 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_0.82-2.1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 126710 38225171738cca0d10b9c1f91313ad0d PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_0.82-2.1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 132002 b3208e369afc8754480f80f6aa2b11c5 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_0.82-2.1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 136274 156b99fa91b627e91f5e2c3dde50ffc7 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_1.1.96-3.1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 831 4f3c53098ca78e9532f62778f0cf3b0a http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_1.1.96-3.1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 23903 b33d66f44f186f88829a0537da99d549 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_1.1.96.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 742271 5d80db150adb4bfc5398d8a90ee2f9dd Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_1.1.96-3.1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 340232 87adcdb4e9ef30d25b95734555f3c134 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_1.1.96-3.1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 325244 4a5e426144987c2ab8372976ef65c34e Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_1.1.96-3.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 320834 73fc7baeba28750356b628eac22e7ec7 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_1.1.96-3.1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 380740 e814ebf7089f0717e8d86912ed38cf4b HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_1.1.96-3.1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 345956 f9bfa25c891ea680d15e2c68498ba7cc Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_1.1.96-3.1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 314324 dfee84b168b5acc1f2ae7239f7d07f28 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_1.1.96-3.1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 316934 fc8f5c0c4c71b69acce97f7666187f27 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_1.1.96-3.1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 315270 4d65c8f3619a14e4f0e8df6e8a3c897b PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_1.1.96-3.1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 322280 4cf75a0c3f3ba1cc625ee6a13009f43a IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_1.1.96-3.1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 321032 60c0866b15e838f97fcdb11380d94aea Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-gv/gnome-gv_1.1.96-3.1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 342248 52513f97ca364ed7978f8050a19c4ef2 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9sBP5W5ql+IAeqTIRAv3/AKCmxfvGZEBq5xAuH/F9HbcYaKWmvwCfT8Kd xQPXTZKwL+wyJY5+Vj7wyRY= =GNW4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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