INFORMATION BULLETIN

S-164: Tk Vulnerability

[Debian Security Advisory DSA-1490-1]

February 11, 2008 18:00 GMT
[REVISED 22 Feb 2008]
[REVISED 27 Jun 2008]


PROBLEM:	A buffer overflow in the GIF image parsing code of Tk, a cross-platform graphical toolkit, could lead to denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
PLATFORM:	Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (oldstable), 4.0 (stable), and 4.0 (etch) Red Hat Desktop (v. 3, v. 4) Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, WS (v. 2.1, v.3, v.4) Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 Client) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
DAMAGE:	Execution of arbitrary code.
SOLUTION:	Upgrade to the appropriate version.

VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT:	The risk is MEDIUM. Could lead to denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

LINKS:
CIAC BULLETIN:	http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/s-164.shtml
ORIGINAL BULLETIN:	http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1490
ADDITIONAL LINKS:	http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1491 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0134.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0135.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0136.html http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1598
CVE:	CVE-2008-0553

REVISION HISTORY:
02/22/2008 - revised S-164 to add links to Red Hat RHSA-2008:0134-3; RHSA-2008:0135-2; 
             and RHSA-2008:0136-1 for Red Hat Desktop (v. 3, v. 4), Red Hat Enterprise 
			 Linux AS, ES, WS (v. 2.1, v.3, v.4), Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 
			 2.1 for the Itanium Processor, RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 Client), 
			 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server), and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
			 Desktop (v. 5 client).
06/27/2008 - revised S-164 to add a link to Debian Security Advisory DSA-1598-1
             for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch).




[***** Start Debian Security Advisory DSA-1490-1 *****]

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1490-1 tk8.3 -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

10 Feb 2008

Affected Packages:

tk8.3

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-0553.

More information:

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the GIF image parsing code of Tk, a cross-platform graphical toolkit, could lead to denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 8.3.5-4sarge1.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 8.3.5-6etch2.

We recommend that you upgrade your tk8.3 packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (oldstable)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-4sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-4sarge1.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-doc_8.3.5-4sarge1_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-4sarge1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-4sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-4sarge1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-4sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-4sarge1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-4sarge1_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-4sarge1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-4sarge1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-4sarge1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-4sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-4sarge1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-4sarge1_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-4sarge1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-4sarge1_m68k.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-4sarge1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-4sarge1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-4sarge1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-4sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-4sarge1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-4sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-4sarge1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-4sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-4sarge1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-4sarge1_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (stable)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-doc_8.3.5-6etch2_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch2_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch2_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch2_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch2_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch2_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch2_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch2_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch2_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch2_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch2_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch2_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch2_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch2_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch2_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch2_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch2_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.


[***** End Debian Security Advisory DSA-1490-1 *****]

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