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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1717-1] New devil packages fix buffer overflow (1/2)

    From Devin Carraway@1:229/2 to All on Thu Feb 5 07:40:06 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1717 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Steffen Joeris February 05, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : devil
    Vulnerability : buffer overflow
    Problem type : local (remote)
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id : CVE-2008-5262
    Debian Bugs : 511844 512122

    Stefan Cornelius discovered a buffer overflow in devil, a cross-platform
    image loading and manipulation toolkit, which could be triggered via a
    crafted Radiance RGBE file. This could potentially lead to the execution
    of arbitrary code.

    For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.6.7-5+etch1.

    For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.6.8-rc2-3+lenny1.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.7.5-4.

    We recommend that you upgrade your devil 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 GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
    - -------------------------------

    Debian (stable)
    - ---------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/devil_1.6.7-5+etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 784 00a9a200619160d990ed2a2deeb4238d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/devil_1.6.7-5+etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 8379 414a516d9fef38921dbd538d78adcac0
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/devil_1.6.7.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3013312 0d0c3842196d85c4e24bedabcd84f626

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 372974 ee2e6a0b9c8df07f1824762d551e042a
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 477468 51486ac6ff1b4cd5e7240f310873a7b4

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 320946 7a851f7411b600951c6f933008b514c9
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 271718 0a202d4d921a1a00a82b3f6f9976e1b6

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 297386 fb284b115a2d299e59facbfa903130aa
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 264932 39a535af14195508964c9ca1775c3132

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 410562 e34d8590f7c2e05d6cf02a118c211655
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 347448 d21505b2fde524a40ee31f0efa12970a

    i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 252798 aca0fc8776489aba07f6a6a103fb52f9
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 286098 1f1bfc9efdd189ea5b430a50ca281cca

    ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 481276 ad48301776addd355e4ffa46374c84d7
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 552778 bd8f6164f68262a7cce113ca541660ef

    mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 377338 0ce969cf88ed85d64c03211eb2268794
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 301428 8c80a1520fe67db9f79ebcb12570bebc

    mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_mipsel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 376332 4c9b8f756eabdd857d9a17d6a74f9b1c
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_mipsel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 302362 ae2dd9e16b1ef239ce1779e16bb89d3e

    powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_powerpc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 368536 e3b1f038afadaffb44ac17a78cb57f15
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_powerpc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 294498 129bc064f6920f5847a539b42e262e2f

    s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_s390.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 310166 a4e8bfb5603d45fe62e678ac8b2affb8
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_s390.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 290248 fc76306188733c38b307662e3105cc70

    sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_sparc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 276480 1387371202c1c4d72288ba07db4dc20b
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_sparc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 329950 50da6f88bfeec78c9a98173a5e254730


    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: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
    Mailing list: [email protected]

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