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gtksee - buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-337-1 gtksee -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
29 Jun 2003
Affected Packages:
gtksee
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-2003-0444.
More information:

Viliam Holub discovered a bug in gtksee whereby, when loading PNG images of certain color depths, gtksee would overflow a heap-allocated buffer. This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker using a carefully constructed PNG image to execute arbitrary code when the victim loads the file in gtksee.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.0-6.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. Refer to Debian bug #76346.

We recommend that you update your gtksee package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtksee/gtksee_0.5.0-6_sparc.deb

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


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