Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1081-1 libextractor -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 29 May 2006
- Affected Packages:
- libextractor
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 18021.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2458. - More information:
-
Luigi Auriemma discovered a buffer overflow in the processing of ASF files in libextractor, a library to extract arbitrary meta-data from files, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.2-2sarge5.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.14-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libextractor packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor_0.4.2-2sarge5.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor_0.4.2-2sarge5.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor_0.4.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor_0.4.2-2sarge5.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.