Debian Security Advisory
DSA-694-1 xloadimage -- missing input sanitising, integer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 21 Mar 2005
- Affected Packages:
- xloadimage
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 298926.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0638, CVE-2005-0639. - More information:
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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in xloadimage, an image viewer for X11. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CAN-2005-0638
Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has reported a flaw in the handling of compressed images, where shell meta-characters are not adequately escaped.
- CAN-2005-0639
Insufficient validation of image properties have been discovered which could potentially result in buffer management errors.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 4.1-10woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 4.1-14.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your xloadimage package.
- CAN-2005-0638
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.