Debian Security Advisory

DSA-263-1 netpbm-free -- math overflow errors

Date Reported:

17 Mar 2003

Affected Packages:

netpbm-free

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0146.
CERT's vulnerabilities, advisories and incident notes: VU#378049, VU#630433.

More information:

Al Viro and Alan Cox discovered several maths overflow errors in NetPBM, a set of graphics conversion tools. These programs are not installed setuid root but are often installed to prepare data for processing. These vulnerabilities may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 9.20-8.2.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not seem to be affected by this problem.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 9.20-9.

We recommend that you upgrade your netpbm package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm-free_9.20-8.2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm-free_9.20-8.2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm-free_9.20.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.2_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.2_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.2_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.2_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.2_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.2_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.2_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.2_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.2_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.2_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.2_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.2_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.2_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.2_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.2_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.2_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.2_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.2_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.2_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.2_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.2_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.2_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.