[CLA-2002:548] Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - windowmaker
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:10:49 -0200
From: secure@conectiva.com.br
To: conectiva-updates@papaleguas.conectiva.com.br, lwn@lwn.net,
Subject: [CLA-2002:548] Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - windowmaker
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CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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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
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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
1. http://www.windowmaker.org/
2. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-1277
DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS TO THE UPDATED PACKAGES
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/SRPMS/WindowMaker-0.62.1-13U60_2cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/WindowMaker-0.62.1-13U60_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/WindowMaker-devel-0.62.1-13U60_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/SRPMS/WindowMaker-0.65.1-2U70_2cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/WindowMaker-0.65.1-2U70_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/WindowMaker-devel-0.65.1-2U70_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/WindowMaker-devel-static-0.65.1-2U70_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/WindowMaker-doc-0.65.1-2U70_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/SRPMS/WindowMaker-0.80.0-3U80_1cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/WindowMaker-0.80.0-3U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/WindowMaker-devel-0.80.0-3U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/WindowMaker-devel-static-0.80.0-3U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/WindowMaker-doc-0.80.0-3U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/libwraster-2.2.0-13U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/libwraster-devel-2.2.0-13U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/libwraster-devel-static-2.2.0-13U80_1cl.i386.rpm
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
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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
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All our advisories and generic update instructions can be viewed at
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?idioma=en
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