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 3.0.4-11etch1.
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_3.0.4-11etch1.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_3.0.4-11etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon_3.0.4.orig.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch1_arm.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch1_ia64.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/unicon/unicon-imc2_3.0.4-11etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.