Debian Security Advisory: xloadimage buffer overflow

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 10, 2001
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 21:45:26 +0200
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA-069-1] xloadimage buffer overflow


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Debian Security Advisory DSA-069-1                   security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
August  9, 2001
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Package: xloadimage
Problem type   : buffer overflow
Debian-specific: no

The version of xloadimage (a graphics files viewer for X) that was
shipped in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 has a buffer overflow in the code that
handles FACES format images. This could be exploited by an attacker by
tricking someone into viewing a specially crafted image using xloadimage
which would allow him to execute arbitrary code.

This problem was fixed in version 4.1-5potato1.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.

  Source archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xloadimage_4.1-5potato1.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 7b920717cbf09b1cc250238817bc66c0
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xloadimage_4.1-5potato1.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 2ef27a164ecd1bcf6c2e34957492497b
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xloadimage_4.1.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 7331850fc04056ab8ae6b5725d1fb3d2

  Alpha architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/xloadimage_4.1-5potato1_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 69ab7a8777d520dca31271240ab374fb

  ARM architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/xloadimage_4.1-5potato1_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 5acda93a872bbfbcd26e72534f5b11a7

  Intel IA-32 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/xloadimage_4.1-5potato1_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 909a84515f69e2329229aa5d5d805b7f

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/xloadimage_4.1-5potato1_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 0122fdd096f84bbd03df4f6a79bd3a9f

  PowerPC architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/xloadimage_4.1-5potato1_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 16534e4be23f0917fe8483ece92a4c76

  Sun Sparc architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/xloadimage_4.1-5potato1_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 666443fce4e4fe474b7b1015e9ca382e

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

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .

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dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
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Web Webster

Web Webster

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