Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1717-1 devil -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 05 Feb 2009
- Affected Packages:
- devil
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 511844, Bug 512122.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-5262. - More information:
-
Stefan Cornelius discovered a buffer overflow in devil, a cross-platform image loading and manipulation toolkit, which could be triggered via a crafted Radiance RGBE file. This could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.7-5+etch1.
For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.8-rc2-3+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.5-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your devil package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/devil_1.6.7-5+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/devil_1.6.7-5+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/devil_1.6.7.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/devil_1.6.7-5+etch1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.