Debian Security Advisory

DSA-625-1 pcal -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:
05 Jan 2005
Affected Packages:
pcal
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 287039.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1289.
More information:

Danny Lungstrom discovered two buffer overflows in pcal, a program to generate Postscript calendars, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when compiling a calendar.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 4.7-8woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 4.8.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pcal package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_sparc.deb

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