DSA 981-1: new bmv packages fix arbitrary code execution

Posted by Bob on: 03/02/2006 09:52 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 981-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
February 26th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : bmv
Vulnerability : integer overflow
Problem-Type : local(remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2005-3278
Debian Bug : 335497

"felinemalice" discovered an integer overflow in BMV, a post script viewer
for SVGAlib, that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code through
specially crafted Postscript files.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2-14.3.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2-17sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2-18.

We recommend that you upgrade your bmv 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 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.3.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 565 1898d7719bc8b5c0c5de50107d52ba3a
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.3.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 14144 34d0323edc6916afcef9496205c54be4
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 50755 40c881800edac6b1d2ce75ea8da6e6b4

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.3_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 21932 19eba9d127882013b807744c866d89d9

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-17sarge1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 569 3f041ac1b04a613eef6164f657ef7a14
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-17sarge1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 13051 90f228f3dadc268c9d1e16d986c10484
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 50755 40c881800edac6b1d2ce75ea8da6e6b4

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-17sarge1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 24246 ee390b0280d154d7a7ccef558d7ecca8

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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