Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1717-1 devil -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
05 Feb 2009
Affected Packages:
devil
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 511844, Bug 512122.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-5262.
More information:

Stefan Cornelius discovered a buffer overflow in devil, a cross-platform image loading and manipulation toolkit, which could be triggered via a crafted Radiance RGBE file. This could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.7-5+etch1.

For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.8-rc2-3+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.5-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your devil package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/devil_1.6.7-5+etch1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/devil_1.6.7-5+etch1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/devil_1.6.7.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil1c2_1.6.7-5+etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/devil/libdevil-dev_1.6.7-5+etch1_sparc.deb

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