Debian Security Advisory
DSA-859-1 xli -- buffer overflows
- Date Reported:
- 10 Oct 2005
- Affected Packages:
- xli
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 332524.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3178. - More information:
-
Ariel Berkman discovered several buffer overflows in xloadimage, which are also present in xli, a command line utility for viewing images in X11, and could be exploited via large image titles and cause the execution of arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.17.0-11woody2.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.17.0-18sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your xli package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.