Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1043-1 abcmidi -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:

26 Apr 2006

Affected Packages:

abcmidi

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-1514.

More information:

Erik Sjölund discovered that abcmidi-yaps, a translator for ABC music description files into PostScript, does not check the boundaries when reading in ABC music files resulting in buffer overflows.

For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 17-1woody1.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 20050101-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 20060422-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your abcmidi-yaps package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_17-1woody1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_17-1woody1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_17.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_17-1woody1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_17-1woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_17-1woody1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_17-1woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_17-1woody1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_17-1woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_17-1woody1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_17-1woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_17-1woody1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_17-1woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_17-1woody1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_17-1woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_17-1woody1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_17-1woody1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_17-1woody1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_17-1woody1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_17-1woody1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_17-1woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_17-1woody1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_17-1woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_17-1woody1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_17-1woody1_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_20050101-1sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_20050101-1sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_20050101.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_20050101-1sarge1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_20050101-1sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_20050101-1sarge1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_20050101-1sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_20050101-1sarge1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_20050101-1sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_20050101-1sarge1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_20050101-1sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_20050101-1sarge1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_20050101-1sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_20050101-1sarge1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_20050101-1sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_20050101-1sarge1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_20050101-1sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_20050101-1sarge1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_20050101-1sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_20050101-1sarge1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_20050101-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_20050101-1sarge1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_20050101-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_20050101-1sarge1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_20050101-1sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi_20050101-1sarge1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/abcmidi/abcmidi-yaps_20050101-1sarge1_sparc.deb

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