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Debian DSA-694-1 : xloadimage - missing input sanitising, integer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 17577

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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

 - 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 have been discovered which could potentially result in buffer management errors.

Solution

Upgrade the xloadimage package.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 4.1-10woody1.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=298926

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-694

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 17577

File Name: debian_DSA-694.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/21/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xloadimage

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0638, CVE-2005-0639

DSA: 694