DSA-1328-1 unicon-imc2 -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1328-1 unicon-imc2 -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

01 Jul 2007

Affected Packages:

unicon-imc2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-2835.

More information:

Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that unicon-imc2, a Chinese input method library, makes unsafe use of an environmental variable, which may be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.4-11etch4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed shortly.

We recommend that you upgrade your unicon-imc2 package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon_3.0.4-11etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon_3.0.4.orig.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon_3.0.4-11etch4.dsc

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch4_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch4_arm.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch4_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch4_ia64.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch4_sparc.deb

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