From joey@infodrom.org Wed Aug 31 07:28:51 2005 From: Martin Schulze Resent-From: list@murphy.debian.org (Mailing List Manager) To: Debian Security Announcements Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:22:40 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk Subject: [Full-disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 792-1] New pstotext packages fix arbitrary command execution -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 792-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze August 31st, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : pstotext Vulnerability : missing input sanitising Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2536 BugTraq ID : 14378 Debian Bug : 319758 Max Vozeler discovered that pstotext, a utility to extract text from PostScript and PDF files, did not execute ghostscript with the -dSAFER argument, which prevents potential malicious operations to happen. For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.8g-5woody1. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9-1sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9-2. We recommend that you upgrade your pstotext package. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- 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 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 569 5e4999fac3cb50533b8fa55fa9b8d839 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 5551 e8656ca1e70907515dea96f646defbeb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 36193 dfabf95fffea52cc03d8728617ca1b1e Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 33478 dc7994b7f762a99cda3f6e9eebfd5078 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 31158 64eb3bb5eaf13a54356bd8b55212ac93 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 31140 ed687aa111ef4d56fd7b2fb220f8118a Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 37056 7ac97b49306cf896bb3d62b6b076ecb0 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 32884 6e7b79977d550e6981b0a6849face1b9 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 30124 5b23f0c04107d284c561d1621c4fd9d1 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 32978 56283a3ef2931d2c4759c4c56218f83a Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 32624 29ed7091abca377c4b91fa68d7bc48cb PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 32082 c8b4af3f34d681f9dabe4ff31bf0434a IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 31354 ce7f8f5b398350e9d779a847b7c5ef2f Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 35050 e6e74a1ccfc2cb7246911b2f0427609f Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 566 a4a25eaf8322a20742fb0eac628c096c http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 7817 634b242dbb68cbb6cf1595e6fa390d0e http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 37461 64576e8a10ff5514e285d98b3898ae78 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 34084 82b71b24a4248ea05d243aa1d7b00e7c AMD64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 33670 b5911eb9b067b55315dadfba9c8cb590 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 32260 426147c50900aba089a9eb430e2094bb Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 32632 e2f9a3859fe3061c85d4f1a54253062e Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 37624 76f3ed1bb870504692fe7fadbeb6e9b7 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 34282 7570594eef38d55ebb26e981c8de306b Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 31370 b9bd589dbbaf0d516cefb4f0b40397be Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 34196 ac148736eaeedd368b6114c79c45b569 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 33800 f9bad656d356e522daf2de44c0cc5f26 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 33408 1b7b3cf7e04b3bf313d798ee822f7e92 IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 32948 b10976913ca43591166801bb9844f096 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 32992 c15517e727b7c38adec0f5f85282c430 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - 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