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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1936-1] New libgd2 packages fix several vulnerabilities

    From Giuseppe Iuculano@1:229/2 to All on Tue Nov 17 22:20:01 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1936-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Giuseppe Iuculano November 17, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : libgd2
    Vulnerability : several
    Problem type : local (remote)
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id : CVE-2007-0455 CVE-2009-3546
    Debian Bug : 408982 552534

    Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in libgd2, a library for programmatic graphics creation and manipulation. The Common
    Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

    CVE-2007-0455

    Kees Cook discovered a buffer overflow in libgd2's font renderer. An
    attacker could cause denial of service (application crash) and
    possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted string with a JIS
    encoded font. This issue only affects the oldstable distribution
    (etch).

    CVE-2009-3546

    Tomas Hoger discovered a boundary error in the "_gdGetColors()"
    function. An attacker could conduct a buffer overflow or buffer
    over-read attacks via a crafted GD file.

    For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.33-5.2etch2.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
    version 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-3+lenny1.

    For the upcoming stable distribution (squeeze) and the unstable
    distribution ion (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-3.1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your libgd2 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
    - -------------------------------

    Oldstable 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/libg/libgd2/libgd2_2.0.33-5.2etch2.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 301479 d2f4b2221cb0e05063f85157711638c7
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2_2.0.33.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 587617 be0a6d326cd8567e736fbc75df0a5c45
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2_2.0.33-5.2etch2.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 988 c143f788dec8bc93ba7d80532600e09c

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-5.2etch2_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 209706 350a29caa97e9308417968f4374fe4cb
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-5.2etch2_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 211442 ac64343bcbd2196196af6b942a603dab
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-5.2etch2_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 147620 9948cdf39afe83183bc1603cd90dd114
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-5.2etch2_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 366996 c0f31c20c69d49d3cb5dadfa95bbf605
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-5.2etch2_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 363262 76cc7a8c6e046be17f44b3dc6bfc6510

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-5.2etch2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 203508 9ee2e8faf2371ffd8893b6d9d2ec021b
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-5.2etch2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 341038 820d12d0f7f578add42fb3d13269d7f5
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-5.2etch2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 200610 cdf81aad23ab53b1d28723c1e50895c9
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-5.2etch2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 145376 1f20c829f68b560492c5f6cac3c0326d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-5.2etch2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 342970 a8574f1ddb902aad8ebc4fab107d2210

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-5.2etch2_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 194452 9933342f1462e2fb3a91572fe81d6d08
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-5.2etch2_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 196524 291e331443613462a389a939f9c927ae
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-5.2etch2_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 144878 a232085eb902a52df464b7aba1aa2b30
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-5.2etch2_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 335830 a443f2cc96cb8c2e8ede402b6c7d70ff
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-5.2etch2_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 333636 827656208c3803187e0e8284dbdb2c85

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-5.2etch2_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 206542 aaedbb6f18a46a19caa0b2af5622de1b
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-5.2etch2_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 351368 95f241fab6f416957fb3a3545a132f6d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-5.2etch2_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 348440 b8b8601eaff99fe3fb01ba88452be1b6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-5.2etch2_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 148142 3ee9af605af8ca186f89e0669bfbacc8
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-5.2etch2_hppa.deb

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