Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1124-1 fbi -- typo

Date Reported:
24 Jul 2006
Affected Packages:
fbi
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-3119.
More information:

Toth Andras discovered that the fbgs framebuffer postscript/PDF viewer contains a typo, which prevents the intended filter against malicious postscript commands from working correctly. This might lead to the deletion of user data when displaying a postscript file.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.01-1.2sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your fbi package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge2_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge2_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge2_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge2_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge2_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge2_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge2_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge2_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge2_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge2_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge2_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge2_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge2_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge2_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge2_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge2_sparc.deb

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