Debian Security Advisory
DSA-508-1 xpcd -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 22 May 2004
- Affected Packages:
- xpcd
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10403.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0402. - More information:
-
Jaguar discovered a vulnerability in one component of xpcd, a PhotoCD viewer. xpcd-svga, part of xpcd which uses svgalib to display graphics on the console, would copy user-supplied data of arbitrary length into a fixed-size buffer in the pcd_open function.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.08-8woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your xpcd package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-svga_2.08-8woody1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.