Debian Security Advisory

DSA-695-1 xli -- buffer overflow, input sanitising, integer overflow

Date Reported:
21 Mar 2005
Affected Packages:
xli
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 298039.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 3006.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2001-0775, CVE-2005-0638, CVE-2005-0639.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in xli, an image viewer for X11. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CAN-2001-0775

    A buffer overflow in the decoder for FACES format images could be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This problem has already been fixed in xloadimage in DSA 069.

  • CAN-2005-0638

    Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has reported a flaw in the handling of compressed images, where shell meta-characters are not adequately escaped.

  • CAN-2005-0639

    Insufficient validation of image properties in have been discovered which could potentially result in buffer management errors.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.17.0-11woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.17.0-18.

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_1.17.0-11woody1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody1.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_1.17.0-11woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xli/xli_1.17.0-11woody1_sparc.deb

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