[SECURITY] [DSA 1214-1] New gv packages fix arbitrary code execution

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1214-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
November 20th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

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Package : gv
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : local(remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2006-5864
Debian Bug : 398292

Renaud Lifchitz discovered that gv, the PostScript and PDF viewer for X,
performs insufficient boundary checks in the Postscript parsing code,
which allows the execution of arbitrary code through a buffer overflow.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.6.1-10sarge1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been
fixed in version 3.6.2-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.6.2-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your gv package.

Upgrade Instructions

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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:      562 a6882dd7ad872c388de651464046bff1
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1.diff.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:    30773 0b08b9588e0a4d58e6a13ef3f857a8ba
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1.orig.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:   453921 ace080d647b70f46fca7946e9543b79e

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   204990 cf6a9a52c90e53226eb62ce0f0d02a44

AMD64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_amd64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   178114 3f878b28ab56953616cfa7819c6208d8

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   171660 7f395714932a4fa16547b69887060a75

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_hppa.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   183576 ff1d8233c688b444990ab658ad0adb7a

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   169100 46ed76270774df9900d24b96b0f29474

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_ia64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   236388 468fe6518efd6064a76cc9796f99463d

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_m68k.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   152714 0518e0f6514317ae178bee63ac317b56

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_mips.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   188450 64fbd5940f027516477cad9ac43150b6

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_mipsel.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   187810 68fc3c4ecafea90c976aef7c680e9d62

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_powerpc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   178918 6c315fbf5b3b9523afc02cbf4425cae8

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_s390.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   176388 b04e21f014181006e2a94704e034d5ac

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gv/gv_3.6.1-10sarge1_sparc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   166532 23225642be076f7be8de287e00bb5735

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;