It was discovered that Blender did not correctly handle certain malformed Radiance RGBE images. If a user were tricked into opening a .blend file containing a specially crafted Radiance RGBE image, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. (CVE-2008-1102)

==========================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-699-1          December 22, 2008
blender vulnerabilities
CVE-2008-1102, CVE-2008-4863
==========================================================
A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
  blender                         2.41-1ubuntu4.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Blender to effect
the necessary changes.

Details follow:

It was discovered that Blender did not correctly handle certain malformed
Radiance RGBE images. If a user were tricked into opening a .blend file
containing a specially crafted Radiance RGBE image, an attacker could execute
arbitrary code with the user's privileges. (CVE-2008-1102)

It was discovered that Blender did not properly sanitize the Python search
path. A local attacker could execute arbitrary code by inserting a specially
crafted Python file in the Blender working directory. (CVE-2008-4863)


Updated packages for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:

  Source archives:

          Size/MD5:    25321 a6a2c9e48b5c274d1744d740b0d0501e
          Size/MD5:      947 2c501e9883db205fab612b6cd7b50d27
          Size/MD5:  9464385 f6b54ff73c37aaca4d3f5babdd156fbf

  amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon):

          Size/MD5:  5399852 ee9c0adcf8fb0cf7021dd3d5132dab41

  i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD):

          Size/MD5:  4848820 f68c68e0db4b4ea0b7c8eed29217e398

  powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5):

          Size/MD5:  5467466 aee78b058760935e9cbe92e069c3ae19

  sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC):

          Size/MD5:  5110704 5f03470392a9c258d2116995b0a6e605