Several local/remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the image loading library for the Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
Gynvael Coldwind discovered a buffer overflow in GIF image parsing, which could result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
It was discovered that a buffer overflow in IFF ILBM image parsing could result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.2.4-1etch1. Due to a copy & paste error etch1
was appended
to the version number instead of sarge1
. Since the update is otherwise
technically correct, the update was not rebuilt on the buildd network.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.5-2+etch1.
We recommend that you upgrade your sdl-image1.2 packages.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.