Debian alert: New gtksee packages fix buffer overflow

Posted by dave on Jun 29, 2003 8:41 AM EDT
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Viliam Holub discovered a bug in gtksee whereby, when loading PNG images of certain color depths, gtksee would overflow a heap-allocated buffer. This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker using a carefully constructed PNG image to execute arbitrary code when the victim loads the file in gtksee.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 337-1                     security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Matt Zimmerman
June 29th, 2003                          http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : gtksee
Vulnerability  : buffer overflow
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids        : CAN-2003-0444

Viliam Holub discovered a bug in gtksee whereby, when loading PNG
images of certain color depths, gtksee would overflow a heap-allocated
buffer.  This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker using a
carefully constructed PNG image to execute arbitrary code when the
victim loads the file in gtksee.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.5.0-6.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
Refer to Debian bug #76346.

We recommend that you update your gtksee package.

Upgrade Instructions
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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/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      609 816a95eaab25f8602b45f07cc9535da3
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:     3631 50123e3acce09d5bba798deef836acf5
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:   224809 21a8a9f28fa61d73725fb606962fa108

  Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_alpha.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   137056 29f5d8f312f6ac17d937b0924f671b70

  ARM architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_arm.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   118008 5c1071f06eb3b55449345e1ef7434e88

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_i386.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   118084 fd16b3894d3462fceb02cb90aa74783b

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_ia64.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   196372 60d7d6156c3f48ac1bb85f6f44d259fb

  HP Precision architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_hppa.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   122912 2943288b598af7d17db20eb61e173fec

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_m68k.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   115652 a934c616f63385b803bd96366e319eed

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_mips.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   118154 bb34474023526ed5dd47d13c005fce93

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_mipsel.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   114920 6671eed391cb58cb63336465dc95e3af

  PowerPC architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   115882 3b71d0550032209bb3b6685eed3210a6

  IBM S/390 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_s390.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   116520 d38703d62fe603f477adc047b4500536

  Sun Sparc architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_sparc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   117670 a3644e7ec17ebecb5db9eb4224cacb1c

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

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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>
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