[CLA-2002:548] Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - windowmaker

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CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT

PACKAGE : windowmaker
SUMMARY : Integer buffer overflow vulnerability
DATE : 2002-11-18 12:10:00
ID : CLA-2002:548
RELEVANT
RELEASES : 6.0, 7.0, 8

DESCRIPTION
Window Maker[1] is a very popular window manager.

Al Viro reported a vulnerability[2] in a function that is used when
Window Maker loads images. This function is used, for example, when a
new background image is configured, and when previewing themes.

This function calculates the ammount of memory necessary to load the
image by doing a multiplication. It does not, however, check the
result of this multiplication, which could suffer an integer overflow
and not fit into the destination variable. Given a sufficiently large
height and/or width parameter, a less than needed ammount of memory
would be allocated, which would result in a buffer overflow later on
when the image is actually loaded.

A possible scenario for this vulnerability could be that of an
attacker making a specially crafted image available and convincing an
unsuspecting user to set it as a background image.

SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Window Maker users upgrade their
packages.

IMPORTANT: if Window Maker is in use during the update, it will have
to be restarted manually. This can be done via the "Exit -> Restart"
menu.

REFERENCES

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
Users of Conectiva Linux version 6.0 or higher may use apt to perform
upgrades of RPM packages:

add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list if it is not there yet
(you may also use linuxconf to do this):

rpm [cncbr] ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br 6.0/conectiva updates

(replace 6.0 with the correct version number if you are not running CL6.0)

run: apt-get update
after that, execute: apt-get upgrade

Detailed instructions reagarding the use of apt and upgrade examples
can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/#apt?idioma=en

All packages are signed with Conectiva's GPG key. The key and instructions
on how to import it can be found at
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/chave/?idioma=en
Instructions on how to check the signatures of the RPM packages can be
found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/politica/?idioma=en

All our advisories and generic update instructions can be viewed at
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?idioma=en

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