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                        SUSE Security Announcement

        Package:                XFree86-libs, xshared
        Announcement-ID:        SUSE-SA:2004:034
        Date:                   Friday, Sep 17th 2004 14:23 MEST
        Affected products:      8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1
                                SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, 9
                                remote command execution
        Severity (1-10):        9
        SUSE default package:   yes
        Cross References:       CAN-2004-0687
                                CAN-2004-0688

    Content of this advisory:
        1) security vulnerability resolved:
             - stack-based buffer overflow
             - integer overflow
           problem description
        2) solution/workaround
        3) special instructions and notes
        4) package location and checksums
        5) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds:
             - samba
             - a2ps
             - mozilla
             - mc
             - squid
             - gaim
             - nessus
             - konqueror
        6) standard appendix (further information)

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1) problem description, brief discussion

    Chris Evans reported three vulnerabilities in libXpm which can
    be exploited remotely by providing malformed XPM image files.
    The function xpmParseColors() is vulnerable to an integer overflow
    and a stack-based buffer overflow. The functions ParseAndPutPixels()
    as well as ParsePixels() is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow
    too.
    Additionally Matthieu Herrb found two one-byte buffer overflows.


2) solution/workaround

    There is no workaround known.


3) special instructions and notes

    After you have updated your system it would be best to restart the
    X server to remove all running instances of vulnerable libXpm code
    from your computer's memory.


4) package location and checksums

    Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its
    integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement.
    Then, install the package using the command "rpm -Fhv file.rpm" to apply
    the update.
    Our maintenance customers are being notified individually. The packages
    are being offered to install from the maintenance web.


    x86 Platform:

    SUSE Linux 9.1:
          3012c0528b52f9c32887469166d07c97
    patch rpm(s):
          ff5ace1728b192c1be0ead104e7074a8
    source rpm(s):
          e54b7716eecbadba26d29d808dfc253c

    SUSE Linux 9.0:
          80960eb494a1448276e07b88bcdf93b9
    patch rpm(s):
          ef4e99c7ab08ee6f4ae4e6f6020d036e
    source rpm(s):
          5320885836408599cd154b98e9f11c44

    SUSE Linux 8.2:
          c4c9e786460c73d25442aa0fbbbf3022
    patch rpm(s):
          efa7c28f19acce67e82aae8b9beb5126
    source rpm(s):
          d61403ce550e0873054ffe887f6406f3

    SUSE Linux 8.1:
          edea41c34e213abf627d3a9388a1e35d
    patch rpm(s):
          517062ac1548ce2eafc734534cef6ba4
    source rpm(s):
          5a840979d8615102e8cdad652608629d



    x86-64 Platform:

    SUSE Linux 9.1:
          b0686b3f2cc91167e596202aacd3294a
    patch rpm(s):
          9fc1ff5c09f45843c94ed50da0110496
    source rpm(s):
          faf725c1202d2b36ad9d85158b6c6479

    SUSE Linux 9.0:
          24ae6856520a90d0125c343f7e26201f
    patch rpm(s):
          c137982b3935200e1f114877003c1022
    source rpm(s):
          bdf6c8d0f7f4d92f6de0d5429486fd5b


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5)  Pending vulnerabilities in SUSE Distributions and Workarounds:

     - samba
     This version fixes several bugs in the Samba suite including two
     denial-of-service (DoS) Vulnerabilities.
     Microsoft Windows XP clients with installed Service Pack 2 crash the
     Samba (smbd) process while printing.
     Using macros in the smb.conf 'log file' statement might lead to an
     infinite recursion.
     A wrong counter and pointer handling in samba-vscan leads to a crash
     of the Samba (smbd) process sometimes.
     A DoS bug in smbd may allow an unauthenticated user to cause smbd to
     spawn new processes, each one entering an infinite loop.  After sending
     a sufficient amount of packets it is possible to exhaust the memory
     resources on the server. This issue is known as CAN-2004-0807.
     A DoS bug in nmbd may allow an attacker to remotely crash the nmbd
     daemon. This issue is known as CAN-2004-0808.
     New packages are available on our FTP servers.

     - a2ps
     This update fixes the handling of filenames that include shell meta-
     characters. Without this patch it was possible to execute shell
     commands via a2ps by providing a filename that includes meta-
     characters as an argument.
     New packages are available on our FTP servers.

     - mozilla
     We are in the process of releasing updates for mozilla (and related
     browsers), fixing various issues: CAN-2004-0597, CAN-2004-0718,
     CAN-2004-0722, CAN-2004-0757, CAN-2004-0758, CAN-2004-0759, CAN-2004-
     0760, CAN-2004-0761, CAN-2004-0762, CAN-2004-0763, CAN-2004-0764 and
     CAN-2004-0765.
     We will give you concrete details in a separate mozilla advisory when
     the updates are available.

     - mc
     The console filesystem browser mc was found vulnerable to various
     meta-char attacks in the extfs perl and shell scripts. These bugs
     can be exploited by providing a malformed archive file to a victim
     user to execute shell commands with her/his privileges.
     (CAN-2004-0494)
     New packages will be available soon.

     - squid
     Certain malformed NTLMSSP packets can crash the NTLM helpers     provided by Squid (CAN-2004-0832).
     New packages will be available soon.

     - gaim
     This security update fixes four security issues which are registered as:
       + CAN-2004-0754
         An integer overflow in the groupware message handler exists in Gaim.
       + CAN-2004-0784
         A shell escape vulnerability in the handling of smiley theme tar-
         ball filenames could lead to arbitrary command execution.
       + CAN-2004-0785
         Buffer overflows in Gaim could lead to a denial of service or
         arbitrary code execution.
     Additionally a buffer overflow in the URL parsing code of gaim is fixed.
     This bug let to remote system compromise with the privileges of the user
     running gaim.

     - nessus
     The nessus-adduser creates temporary files in $TMPDIR in an insecure
     manner.
     New packages will be available soon.

     - konqueror
     Westpoint notified us about a cookie stealing problem in various web-
     browsers ().
     The already available kdelibs3 packages (announced in SUSE-SA:2004:026)
     include patches for this vulnerability. We would like to thank
     Westpoint for their cooperation.
     Other browsers (Mozilla, Opera, ...) will be updated as soon as 
     possible.

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6)  standard appendix: authenticity verification, additional information

  - Package authenticity verification:

    SUSE update packages are available on many mirror ftp servers all over
    the world. While this service is being considered valuable and important
    to the free and open source software community, many users wish to be
    sure about the origin of the package and its content before installing
    the package. There are two verification methods that can be used
    independently from each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded
    file or rpm package:
    1) md5sums as provided in the (cryptographically signed) announcement.
    2) using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package.

    1) execute the command
        md5sum 
       after you downloaded the file from a SUSE ftp server or its mirrors.
       Then, compare the resulting md5sum with the one that is listed in the
       announcement. Since the announcement containing the checksums is
       cryptographically signed (usually using the key security@suse.de),
       the checksums show proof of the authenticity of the package.
       We disrecommend to subscribe to security lists which cause the
       email message containing the announcement to be modified so that
       the signature does not match after transport through the mailing
       list software.
       Downsides: You must be able to verify the authenticity of the
       announcement in the first place. If RPM packages are being rebuilt
       and a new version of a package is published on the ftp server, all
       md5 sums for the files are useless.

    2) rpm package signatures provide an easy way to verify the authenticity
       of an rpm package. Use the command
        rpm -v --checksig 
       to verify the signature of the package, where  is the
       filename of the rpm package that you have downloaded. Of course,
       package authenticity verification can only target an un-installed rpm
       package file.
       Prerequisites:
        a) gpg is installed
        b) The package is signed using a certain key. The public part of this
           key must be installed by the gpg program in the directory
           ~/.gnupg/ under the user's home directory who performs the
           signature verification (usually root). You can import the key
           that is used by SUSE in rpm packages for SUSE Linux by saving
           this announcement to a file ("announcement.txt") and
           running the command (do "su -" to be root):
            gpg --batch; gpg < announcement.txt | gpg --import
           SUSE Linux distributions version 7.1 and thereafter install the
           key "build@suse.de" upon installation or upgrade, provided that
           the package gpg is installed. The file containing the public key
           is placed at the top-level directory of the first CD (pubring.gpg)
           and at  .


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