Debian: New gedit packages fix denial of service

Date 12 Jul 2005

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By Joe Shakespeare

A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit, a light-weight text editor for GNOME, that may allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a binary file with format string specifiers in the filename.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 753-1                     This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
July 12th, 2005                         https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : gedit
Vulnerability  : format string
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CAN-2005-1686

A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit, a
light-weight text editor for GNOME, that may allow attackers to cause
a denial of service (application crash) via a binary file with format
string specifiers in the filename.  Since gedit supports opening files
via "https://" URLs (through GNOME vfs) and other schemes, this might
be a remotely exploitable vulnerability.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not vulnerable to this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.8.3-4sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.10.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gedit 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:

  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum:     1848 99c4beadcf902ee5857c7a3150f4d0ad
  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    54443 96de2c7d0d757d867f46d36490e0ee92
  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:  4051445 cbbd5999141d6de932a0afdd55f1aa35

Architecture independent components:

  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit-common_2.8.3-4sarge1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:  1826070 d8519b91f1a8aeba351b1eca19c17712
  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit-dev_2.8.3-4sarge1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    44346 01d42b323e7ffdd2a6aba454996a5a48

Alpha architecture:

  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   523608 1f183dc0960c8e9405953fb0946a1f8b

ARM architecture:

  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   457332 476fc39b828ffcd2224f4ce65e71afcc

Intel IA-32 architecture:

  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   470122 7162c0ac1f1a7ccd2a315d5b4f01f5d2

Intel IA-64 architecture:

  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   578896 85c408b6b41585ddb5d366a3d8ea8aea

HP Precision architecture:

  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   505246 2436f36b3b10b36e3af1688e420de02f

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_m68k.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   459142 d475046c385f0ebd06912d89671f89ef

Big endian MIPS architecture:

  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   456504 4e3dbf6cf317c281cd5ddfd379bfa6c1

Little endian MIPS architecture:

  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_mipsel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   455104 c466bd51b370e0bfe4a0133e9f31e87c

PowerPC architecture:

  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_powerpc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   473552 7f15b8f11abb2cb017bdc8a9069f1940

IBM S/390 architecture:

  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_s390.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   492994 d86d79670ebad24391213d3449db0dee

Sun Sparc architecture:

  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_sparc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   462362 f24856c85dd4f7782a7377423392db70


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

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