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Debian 8 Jessie DLA-1463-1 Moderate: Sam2p Denial Of Service

debian lts
Calendar Grey August 10, 2018
Dist Debian Esm H88
Essential revisions for sam2p toolkit tackling various security flaws, including potential denial of service risks. Upgrade advised.
Various vulnerabilities leading to denial of service or possible unspecified other impacts were discovered in sam2p, an utility to convert raster images to EPS, PDF, and other form...
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Summary

CVE-2018-12578

A heap-buffer-overflow in bmp_compress1_row. Thanks to Peter Szabo for
providing a fix.

CVE-2018-12601

A heap-buffer-overflow in function ReadImage, in file input-tga.ci. Thanks
to Peter Szabo for providing a fix.

For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problems have been fixed in version
0.49.2-3+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your sam2p packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


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<pre><font face="Courier">Package: sam2p
Version: 0.49.2-3+deb8u3
CVE ID: CVE-2018-12578 CVE-2018-12601

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