DSA 915-1: New helix-player packages fix arbitrary code execution

Posted by Bob on: 12/02/2005 07:42 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 915-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
December 2nd, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : helix-player
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2005-2629
BugTraq ID : 15381

An integer overflow has been discovered in helix-player, the helix
audio and video player. This flaw could allow a remote attacker to
run arbitrary code on a victims computer by supplying a specially
crafted network resource.

This vulnerability is fixed by version 1.0.6-1 in unstable.
Helix-player is not currently in the testing distribution.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a helix-player
package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.4-1sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your helix-player package.

Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/helix-player/helix-player_1.0.4-1sarge2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 908 5abe49b8d746b78b1f70016382d44a35
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/helix-player/helix-player_1.0.4-1sarge2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 9113 b7103af4ca93cb52cd548a4f7da43c3b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/helix-player/helix-player_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 18044552 a277710be35426b317869503a4ad36d7

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/helix-player/helix-player_1.0.4-1sarge2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 4289142 afe49d505b51edefe6b66e92720e9a62

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/helix-player/helix-player_1.0.4-1sarge2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 4415648 9a9ad7733abed7ffcd6c69ce366d576c

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show lt;pkggt;' and http://packages.debian.org/lt;pkggt;

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