Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1416-1 tk8.3 -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

27 Nov 2007

Affected Packages:

tk8.3

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-5378.

More information:

It was discovered that Tk, a cross-platform graphical toolkit for Tcl, performs insufficient input validation in the code used to load GIF images, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Due to the technical limitation in the Debian archive scripts the update for the old stable distribution (sarge) cannot be released in sync with the update for the stable distribution. It will be provided in the next days.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 8.3.5-6etch1.

We recommend that you upgrade your tk8.3 packages.

Fixed in:

Debian 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch1.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_8.3.5-6etch1_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3_8.3.5-6etch1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tk8.3/tk8.3-dev_8.3.5-6etch1_sparc.deb

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