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Gentoo: GLSA 201310-05 Normal: GEGL Integer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey October 6, 2013
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo has issued a standard severity advisory regarding potential arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in GEGL, stemming from integer overflows that could be exploited
A vulnerability in GEGL might allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Summary

Multiple integer overflows in GEGL may cause a heap-based buffer overflow.

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo code execution integer overflow arbitrary code image processing

Resolution

All gegl users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/gegl-0.2.0-r2"
Packages which depend on this library may need to be recompiled. Tools such as revdep-rebuild may assist in identifying some of these packages.

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-4433 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4433

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201310-05
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: GEGL: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Date: October 06, 2013
Bugs: #442016
ID: 201310-05

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo code execution integer overflow arbitrary code image processing

Synopsis

A vulnerability in GEGL might allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Background

GEGL is a graph-based image processing framework.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/gegl < 0.2.0-r2 >= 0.2.0-r2

Impact

===== A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PPM image using an application linked against GEGL, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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