Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1998-1 kdelibs -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
17 Feb 2010
Affected Packages:
kdelibs
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0689.
More information:

Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered a buffer overflow in the internal string routines of the KDE core libraries, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your kdelibs packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs_3.5.10.dfsg.1.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-data_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-doc_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_arm.deb
ARM EABI:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_armel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_armel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_armel.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4_sparc.deb

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