Debian Security Advisory

DSA-694-1 xloadimage -- missing input sanitising, integer overflow

Date Reported:
21 Mar 2005
Affected Packages:
xloadimage
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 298926.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0638, CVE-2005-0639.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in xloadimage, an image viewer for X11. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CAN-2005-0638

    Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has reported a flaw in the handling of compressed images, where shell meta-characters are not adequately escaped.

  • CAN-2005-0639

    Insufficient validation of image properties have been discovered which could potentially result in buffer management errors.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 4.1-10woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 4.1-14.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your xloadimage package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xloadimage/xloadimage_4.1-10woody1_sparc.deb

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