Debian Security Advisory

DSA-676-1 xpcd -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

11 Feb 2005

Affected Packages:

xpcd

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0074.

More information:

Erik Sjölund discovered a buffer overflow in pcdsvgaview, an SVGA PhotoCD viewer. xpcd-svga is part of xpcd and uses svgalib to display graphics on the Linux console for which root permissions are required. A malicious user could overflow a fixed-size buffer and may cause the program to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.08-8woody3.

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

We recommend that you upgrade your xpcd-svga package immediately.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody3.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody3.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody3_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody3_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody3_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody3_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody3_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody3_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-svga_2.08-8woody3_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody3_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody3_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody3_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody3_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody3_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody3_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody3_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody3_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody3_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody3_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody3_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody3_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody3_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody3_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd_2.08-8woody3_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpcd/xpcd-gimp_2.08-8woody3_sparc.deb

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