Debian Security Advisory

DSA-998-1 libextractor -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
14 Mar 2006
Affected Packages:
libextractor
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
No other external database security references currently available.
More information:

Derek Noonburg has fixed several potential vulnerabilities in xpdf, which are also present in libextractor, a library to extract arbitrary meta-data from files.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain libextractor packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.4.2-2sarge3.

For the unstable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.5.10-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libextractor package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor_0.4.2-2sarge3.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor_0.4.2-2sarge3.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor_0.4.2.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge3_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge3_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge3_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge3_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge3_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge3_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge3_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge3_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge3_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge3_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge3_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge3_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge3_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge3_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge3_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge3_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge3_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge3_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge3_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge3_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge3_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge3_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge3_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge3_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge3_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge3_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge3_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge3_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge3_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge3_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge3_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge3_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge3_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge3_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge3_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge3_sparc.deb

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