Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1277-1 XMMS -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
04 Apr 2007
Affected Packages:
xmms
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 416423.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 23078.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-0654, CVE-2007-0653.
More information:

Multiple errors have been found in the skin handling routines in xmms, the X Multimedia System. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code as the user running xmms by inducing the victim to load specially crafted interface skin files.

For the stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in versions 1:1.2.10+20061101-1etch1 and 1:1.2.10+20070401-1, respectively.

We recommend that you upgrade your xmms packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (stable)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.10+cvs20050209.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1.dsc
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms-dev_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms-dev_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms-dev_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms-dev_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms-dev_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms-dev_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms-dev_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_m68k.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms-dev_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms-dev_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms-dev_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms-dev_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms-dev_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmms/xmms_1.2.10+cvs20050209-2sarge1_sparc.deb

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