DSA-859-1 xli -- buffer overflows

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-859-1 xli -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:

10 Oct 2005

Affected Packages:

xli

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 332524.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3178.

More information:

Ariel Berkman discovered several buffer overflows in xloadimage, which are also present in xli, a command line utility for viewing images in X11, and could be exploited via large image titles and cause the execution of arbitrary code.

For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.17.0-11woody2.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.17.0-18sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your xli package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody2_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_sparc.deb

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