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A new Blender vulnerabilities update is available for Ubuntu Linux. Here the announcement:



Ubuntu Security Notice USN-699-1 December 22, 2008
blender vulnerabilities
CVE-2008-1102, CVE-2008-4863
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
blender 2.41-1ubuntu4.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Blender to effect
the necessary changes.

Details follow:

It was discovered that Blender did not correctly handle certain malformed
Radiance RGBE images. If a user were tricked into opening a .blend file
containing a specially crafted Radiance RGBE image, an attacker could execu=
te
arbitrary code with the user's privileges. (CVE-2008-1102)

It was discovered that Blender did not properly sanitize the Python search
path. A local attacker could execute arbitrary code by inserting a speciall=
y
crafted Python file in the Blender working directory. (CVE-2008-4863)


Updated packages for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:

Source archives:

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/blender/blender_2.41-1ubu=
ntu4.1.diff.gz
Size/MD5: 25321 a6a2c9e48b5c274d1744d740b0d0501e
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/blender/blender_2.41-1ubu=
ntu4.1.dsc
Size/MD5: 947 2c501e9883db205fab612b6cd7b50d27
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/blender/blender_2.41.orig=
.tar.gz
Size/MD5: 9464385 f6b54ff73c37aaca4d3f5babdd156fbf

amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon):

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/blender/blender_2.41-1ubu=
ntu4.1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5: 5399852 ee9c0adcf8fb0cf7021dd3d5132dab41

i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD):

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/blender/blender_2.41-1ubu=
ntu4.1_i386.deb
Size/MD5: 4848820 f68c68e0db4b4ea0b7c8eed29217e398

powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5):

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/blender/blender_2.41-1ubu=
ntu4.1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5: 5467466 aee78b058760935e9cbe92e069c3ae19

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC):

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/blender/blender_2.41-1ubu=
ntu4.1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5: 5110704 5f03470392a9c258d2116995b0a6e605



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