Debian Security Advisory

DSA-981-1 bmv -- integer overflow

Date Reported:

26 Feb 2006

Affected Packages:

bmv

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 335497.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3278.

More information:

"felinemalice" discovered an integer overflow in BMV, a post script viewer for SVGAlib, that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code through specially crafted Postscript files.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-14.3.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-17sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-18.

We recommend that you upgrade your bmv package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.3.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.3.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2.orig.tar.gz
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.3_i386.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-17sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-17sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2.orig.tar.gz
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-17sarge1_i386.deb

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