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Ubuntu 20.04 USN 6784-2 Moderate: xpcd Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey May 25, 2004
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Critical buffer overflow in xpcd may allow arbitrary code execution. Upgrade to version 1.4.3-1 or higher to secure your system
Bug allows copy of user-supplied data of arbitrary length into a fixed-size buffer in the pcd_open function.

Summary

Jaguar discovered a vulnerability in one component of xpcd, a PhotoCD
viewer. xpcd-svga, part of xpcd which uses svgalib to display
graphics on the console, would copy user-supplied data of arbitrary
length into a fixed-size buffer in the pcd_open function.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 2.08-8woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your xpcd 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 3.0 alias woody

Source archives:


Size/MD5 checksum: 706 4...

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Package: xpcd

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