Debian Security Advisory
DSA-337-1 gtksee -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 29 Jun 2003
- Affected Packages:
- gtksee
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 8061.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0444. - More information:
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Viliam Holub discovered a bug in gtksee whereby, when loading PNG images of certain color depths, gtksee would overflow a heap-allocated buffer. This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker using a carefully constructed PNG image to execute arbitrary code when the victim loads the file in gtksee.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.0-6.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. Refer to Debian bug #76346.
We recommend that you update your gtksee package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.