Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1546-1 gnumeric -- integer overflow

Date Reported:

10 Apr 2008

Affected Packages:

gnumeric

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-0668.

More information:

Thilo Pfennig and Morten Welinder discovered several integer overflow weaknesses in Gnumeric, a GNOME spreadsheet application. These vulnerabilities could result in the execution of arbitrary code through the opening of a maliciously crafted Excel spreadsheet.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.3-5+etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnumeric packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (stable)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.6.3-5.1+etch1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.6.3.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.6.3-5.1+etch1.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-common_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-doc_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.6.3-5.1+etch1_sparc.deb

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