- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1219-1                security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Noah Meyerhans
November 27, 2006
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package        : texinfo
Vulnerability  : buffer overflow
Problem type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2005-3011 CVE-2006-4810
BugTraq ID     : 14854 20959

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the GNU texinfo package, a
documentation system for on-line information and printed output.

CVE-2005-3011
Handling of temporary files is performed in an insecure manner, allowing
an attacker to overwrite any file writable by the victim.

CVE-2006-4810
A buffer overflow in util/texindex.c could allow an attacker to execute
arbitrary code with the victim's access rights by inducing the victim to
run texindex or tex2dvi on a specially crafted texinfo file.

For the stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.7-2.2sarge2  Note that binary packages for the mipsel
architecture are not currently available due to technical problems with
the build host.  These packages will be made available as soon as
possible.

For unstable (sid) and the upcoming stable release (etch), these
problems have been fixed in version 4.8.dfsg.1-4

We recommend that you upgrade your texinfo package.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------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 3.1 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

      Size/MD5 checksum:      622 f146d738696417a3f14e04875066ef9a
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1979183 72a57e378efb9898c9e41ca839554dae
      Size/MD5 checksum:    10614 07a591b00a79ba8e2acf13d7654bf3e8

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   207720 1fce59e479c10386d5bab3d8aec99ddd
      Size/MD5 checksum:   884956 93a3606294fd0059390b7da3c5803a1a

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

      Size/MD5 checksum:   191308 035c9fb7bffa818819e6e104218d5911
      Size/MD5 checksum:   863680 8300c746fbb75231a09229f32f57d126

arm architecture (ARM)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   178812 d8781c075692500d4d6a799019697a72
      Size/MD5 checksum:   848862 4d31ba02e3004a5e290d6204ba402b19

hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   867668 934d2a72b73c4342066f1fba21c35fff
      Size/MD5 checksum:   195122 07ea3515643ddb8dc29791802974ec40

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   846972 eb370f53f4db1681ead784353f6711c4
      Size/MD5 checksum:   179614 ee08c755b1eb00043173acfdae2420d7

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   912350 c99196682ffe5436a1f99da332e77f91
      Size/MD5 checksum:   229398 e9e6dca2f2250bd07c0605e393105339

m68k architecture (Motorola Mc680x0)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   171354 93b5762ecf847bba77396f08b04e225e
      Size/MD5 checksum:   838386 2d63f36ef81c84ae8bdad8f2be5f1797

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

      Size/MD5 checksum:   197790 a4995ad93353790e9c65c1670013ee9d
      Size/MD5 checksum:   871394 33293634348c2de181f44a1cde80a296

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   858718 15af021f7fcc9f8725e6148fcbc7ea45
      Size/MD5 checksum:   190392 0ad24b055c5c6db61c81120a9a3931ee

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   190132 5d21d2dbfe5625f0a16a9016869ebd07
      Size/MD5 checksum:   862776 79880b6208371510574f131376c01097

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   179676 ff45ad02e7f8a92ce2c99225a3671f3e
      Size/MD5 checksum:   849696 5ebdcaed10e4bf038162a6a937f1bc1a


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

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