Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2048-1 dvipng -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 22 May 2010
- Affected Packages:
- dvipng
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 580628.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-0829. - More information:
-
Dan Rosenberg discovered that in dvipng, a utility that converts DVI files to PNG graphics, several array index errors allow context-dependent attackers, via a specially crafted DVI file, to cause a denial of service (crash of the application), and possibly arbitrary code execution.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version dvipng_1.11-1+lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.13-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.13-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your dvipng package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dvipng/dvipng_1.11-1+lenny1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dvipng/dvipng_1.11.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dvipng/dvipng_1.11-1+lenny1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dvipng/dvipng_1.11.orig.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dvipng/dvipng_1.11-1+lenny1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dvipng/dvipng_1.11-1+lenny1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dvipng/dvipng_1.11-1+lenny1_arm.deb
- ARM EABI:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dvipng/dvipng_1.11-1+lenny1_armel.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dvipng/dvipng_1.11-1+lenny1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dvipng/dvipng_1.11-1+lenny1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dvipng/dvipng_1.11-1+lenny1_ia64.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dvipng/dvipng_1.11-1+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dvipng/dvipng_1.11-1+lenny1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dvipng/dvipng_1.11-1+lenny1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.