Debian Security Advisory

DSA-743-1 ht -- buffer overflows, integer overflows

Date Reported:
08 Jul 2005
Affected Packages:
ht
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1545, CVE-2005-1546.
More information:

Several problems have been discovered in ht, a viewer, editor and analyser for various executables, that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CAN-2005-1545

    Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Team discovered an integer overflow in the ELF parser.

  • CAN-2005-1546

    The authors have discovered a buffer overflow in the PE parser.

For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.5.0-1woody4. For the HP Precision architecture, you are advised not to use this package anymore since we cannot provide updated packages as it doesn't compile anymore.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.0-2sarge4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.0-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your ht package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.5.0-1woody4.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.5.0-1woody4.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.5.0.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.5.0-1woody4_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.5.0-1woody4_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.5.0-1woody4_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.5.0-1woody4_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.5.0-1woody4_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.5.0-1woody4_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.5.0-1woody4_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.5.0-1woody4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.5.0-1woody4_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.5.0-1woody4_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.8.0-2sarge4.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.8.0-2sarge4.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.8.0.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.8.0-2sarge4_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.8.0-2sarge4_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.8.0-2sarge4_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.8.0-2sarge4_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.8.0-2sarge4_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.8.0-2sarge4_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.8.0-2sarge4_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.8.0-2sarge4_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.8.0-2sarge4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.8.0-2sarge4_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/ht/ht_0.8.0-2sarge4_sparc.deb

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