Debian alert: New kghostview packages fix buffer overflow

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 182-1                     security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
October 28th, 2002                      http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : kdegraphics
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 kghostview which is part
of the KDE-Graphics package.  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 2.2.2-6.8 for the current
stable distribution (woody) and in version 2.2.2-6.9 for the unstable
distribution (sid).  The old stable distribution (potato) is not
affected since no KDE is included.

We recommend that you upgrade your kghostview 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 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdegraphics/kdegraphics_2.2.2-6.8.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      978 92a3fa3751c538608857c57a713a9487
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdegraphics/kdegraphics_2.2.2-6.8.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:    59276 fe7f3a7ed39f52457efca69226bccc33
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdegraphics/kdegraphics_2.2.2.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1640320 4dc8538c4c8dd8b13ef4f8e62446d777

  Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdegraphics/kghostview_2.2.2-6.8_alpha.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   165978 fba04ef31acd55249d3df119b6712444

  ARM architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdegraphics/kghostview_2.2.2-6.8_arm.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   146588 b76885389c6d29dbd11db488385b395f

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdegraphics/kghostview_2.2.2-6.8_i386.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   146264 e574c2d69f9392ce94a9a03d1297a218

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdegraphics/kghostview_2.2.2-6.8_ia64.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   197724 9a35cfc75c5672a0ddba1c17a9d9d62e

  HP Precision architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdegraphics/kghostview_2.2.2-6.8_hppa.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   171188 0c683f2d0f8f667c93ded25dde41332f

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdegraphics/kghostview_2.2.2-6.8_m68k.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   142828 68fa4e43a0af7a2d024c55da219b99ad

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdegraphics/kghostview_2.2.2-6.8_mips.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   138378 842a9be4b081394452ec550cc564d0b7

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdegraphics/kghostview_2.2.2-6.8_mipsel.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   136866 d884fae95437379052339da29ccc5afd

  PowerPC architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdegraphics/kghostview_2.2.2-6.8_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   146622 fbf4c9b3164b0a0f3329df556ec722be

  IBM S/390 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdegraphics/kghostview_2.2.2-6.8_s390.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   146122 eea9e2c0f0bb23303ee0e29e95a6e3e4

  Sun Sparc architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdegraphics/kghostview_2.2.2-6.8_sparc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   148240 62902f062d14a4c6a6794d1368be49d4


  Please note that the source packages mentioned above produce more
  binary packages than the ones listed above.  They are not relevant
  for the fixed problems, though.

  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>

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