DSA-710-1 gtkhtml -- null pointer dereference

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-710-1 gtkhtml -- null pointer dereference

Date Reported:

18 Apr 2005

Affected Packages:

gtkhtml

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 279726.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0541.

More information:

Alan Cox discovered a problem in gtkhtml, an HTML rendering widget used by the Evolution mail reader. Certain malformed messages could cause a crash due to a null pointer dereference.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-1.woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-6.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your gtkhtml package and restart Evolution.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/gtkhtml_1.0.2-1.woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/gtkhtml_1.0.2-1.woody1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/gtkhtml_1.0.2.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml-data_1.0.2-1.woody1_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/gtkhtml_1.0.2-1.woody1_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml-dev_1.0.2-1.woody1_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml20_1.0.2-1.woody1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/gtkhtml_1.0.2-1.woody1_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml-dev_1.0.2-1.woody1_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml20_1.0.2-1.woody1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/gtkhtml_1.0.2-1.woody1_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml-dev_1.0.2-1.woody1_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml20_1.0.2-1.woody1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/gtkhtml_1.0.2-1.woody1_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml-dev_1.0.2-1.woody1_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml20_1.0.2-1.woody1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/gtkhtml_1.0.2-1.woody1_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml-dev_1.0.2-1.woody1_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml20_1.0.2-1.woody1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/gtkhtml_1.0.2-1.woody1_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml-dev_1.0.2-1.woody1_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml20_1.0.2-1.woody1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/gtkhtml_1.0.2-1.woody1_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml-dev_1.0.2-1.woody1_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml20_1.0.2-1.woody1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/gtkhtml_1.0.2-1.woody1_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml-dev_1.0.2-1.woody1_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml20_1.0.2-1.woody1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/gtkhtml_1.0.2-1.woody1_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml-dev_1.0.2-1.woody1_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml20_1.0.2-1.woody1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/gtkhtml_1.0.2-1.woody1_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml-dev_1.0.2-1.woody1_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml20_1.0.2-1.woody1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/gtkhtml_1.0.2-1.woody1_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml-dev_1.0.2-1.woody1_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtkhtml/libgtkhtml20_1.0.2-1.woody1_sparc.deb

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