DSA-1081-1 libextractor -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1081-1 libextractor -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

29 May 2006

Affected Packages:

libextractor

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 18021.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2458.

More information:

Luigi Auriemma discovered a buffer overflow in the processing of ASF files in libextractor, a library to extract arbitrary meta-data from files, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.2-2sarge5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.14-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libextractor packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor_0.4.2-2sarge5.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor_0.4.2-2sarge5.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor_0.4.2.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/extract_0.4.2-2sarge5_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1_0.4.2-2sarge5_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libextractor/libextractor1-dev_0.4.2-2sarge5_sparc.deb

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