Debian: New imlib2 packages fix arbitrary code execution
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1672-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff November 29, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : imlib2 Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : local(remote) Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-5187 Debian Bug : 505714 Julien Danjou and Peter De Wachter discovered that a buffer overflow in the XPM loader of Imlib2, a powerful image loading and rendering library, might lead to arbitrary code execution. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.0.0debian1-4+etch2. For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.0-1.2. We recommend that you upgrade your imlib2 packages. 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 GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - -------------------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 617750 7f389463afdb09310fa61e5036714bb3 Size/MD5 checksum: 775 3a483642e5e60fd6f912af749817f456 Size/MD5 checksum: 12968 5394cd31ea21566fef7a6782ff2548a5 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) Size/MD5 checksum: 437474 56f6242321a6cef8d4056334b59f54db Size/MD5 checksum: 240248 bddc58ba8ad890c50d7cdb1dd827898b amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 360324 28957ea6f1202e702daa04f66a13e66b Size/MD5 checksum: 212104 acff68d323a86eb0a09d8a34fa607c4f hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) Size/MD5 checksum: 386144 1439604854f5dcf30bcc73abf58a9412 Size/MD5 checksum: 227728 7c1ffa030aad3ee783378f20da6b76f3 i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 335616 729f2498ddf0a28d69344b039aa7bf41 Size/MD5 checksum: 205896 e0d9f18bd5c2e3cfdcc27be6b6b2dfed ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) Size/MD5 checksum: 295004 79fd04a7fd23309b68a1e9cb01bc53b4 Size/MD5 checksum: 462724 ece752dbd71f36cab1acc3bcf6323cd5 mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 207294 9a5e59530d7d8cd78eaba0a2fe5f5b03 Size/MD5 checksum: 370468 732ba92fef6b086a385dae15d39ae3b0 mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 207960 00d25bb5fe67159ef4a3853a8448dbf8 Size/MD5 checksum: 369292 88cf205cd158e623fded50f65a4be8a0 powerpc architecture (PowerPC) Size/MD5 checksum: 218918 a77ca2842bae4cc9a810121eb5975825 Size/MD5 checksum: 359876 239b8ca33d380a7f4f9deed47728f50f s390 architecture (IBM S/390) Size/MD5 checksum: 216192 63f335de53e2ca897eab47c487e0cd4b Size/MD5 checksum: 369042 fee16daa277b04eb95df2c73039e637e sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) Size/MD5 checksum: 197844 285364fb7d88c0be4bf7a63358e29a9f Size/MD5 checksum: 336396 cb7f957c2f8442d6ac0b48c07c98df89 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org