SuSE Security Announcement: xli/xloadimage (SuSE-SA:2001:024)
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SuSE Security Announcement
Package: xli/xloadimage
Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2001:024
Date: Tuesday, July 24th 2001 17:30 MEST
Affected SuSE versions: (6.0, 6.1, 6.2,) 6.3, 6.4, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2
Vulnerability Type: remote system compromise
Severity (1-10): 3
SuSE default package: no
Other affected systems: yes
Content of this advisory:
1) security vulnerability resolved: xli
problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information
2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds
3) standard appendix (further information)
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1) problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information
xli, aka xloadimage, a image viewer for X11 is used by Netscape's plugger
to display TIFF-, PNG- and Sun-Raster-images. The plugger configuration
file is /etc/pluggerrc.
Due to missing boundary checks in the xli code a buffer overflow could be
triggered by an external attacker to execute commands on the victim's
system. An exploit is publically available.
SuSE Linux is not vulnerable by default because of the different names.
On SuSE Linux the command is called xli, while the plugger uses xloadimage.
/etc/pluggerrc:
exits: xloadimage -quiet -windowid $window $file
If you have xloadimage installed on your system on your own, you should
comment out the lines in /etc/pluggerrc, that contain xloadimage, for
a temporary fix.
Otherwise update the packages for your system.
Nevertheless, it's recommended to leave the xloadimage entry in
/etc/pluggerrc commented out, because of the potential risk the
xloadimage code causes.
i386 Intel Platform:
SuSE-7.2
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/gra2/xli-1.16-351.i386.rpm
d35b3ee5b02bfb1bf4f9d8ccefdfa889
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/zq1/xli-1.16-351.src.rpm
56b928a28cb32cc0103bfa89e74eee05
SuSE-7.1
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/gra2/xli-1.16-351.i386.rpm
5216c3ebdbd327506790107a927a0c2e
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/zq1/xli-1.16-351.src.rpm
c3ee309a35fdcf0652626f9712771523
SuSE-7.0
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/gra2/xli-1.16-351.i386.rpm
dffbd8a0c19d8df8141d4434107fb042
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/zq1/xli-1.16-351.src.rpm
410666ff06b1d050fd9cd6a16b190143
SuSE-6.4
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/gra2/xli-1.16-351.i386.rpm
8132e176e41d403978049345941679a0
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/xli-1.16-351.src.rpm
d40dc2e9b46b7a9818cfd73dac269758
SuSE-6.3
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/gra2/xli-1.16-351.i386.rpm
b7cb7b57c78d8d5b765941372d7d7559
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/zq1/xli-1.16-351.src.rpm
f8c47e0de4bfd59b40b0271aca133e36
Sparc Platform:
SuSE-7.1
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.1/gra2/xli-1.16-301.sparc.rpm
7df3b152cf2e5e89582007fbeb59ec4c
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.1/zq1/xli-1.16-301.src.rpm
c110d3e3bfbc73f2a37cb91d468acd60
SuSE-7.0
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/gra2/xli-1.16-300.sparc.rpm
62d0e49f02a6c6491f1341a6f92aa3b0
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/zq1/xli-1.16-300.src.rpm
00201403e740d408f20e8ae77a63f77f
AXP Alpha Platform:
SuSE-7.1
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/gra2/xli-1.16-301.alpha.rpm
fdc3bb5cd102fa3007c3fe5fb0ae999b
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/zq1/xli-1.16-301.src.rpm
72e51e76005f216ea476ff0e2a9890ce
SuSE-7.0
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.0/gra2/xli-1.16-301.alpha.rpm
ba9efef4991ebc8fda02f00395468468
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.0/zq1/xli-1.16-301.src.rpm
e4d369fd4080965f9a81ba5e97934245
SuSE-6.4
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/gra2/xli-1.16-301.alpha.rpm
2d37a2be14760c8f3f251c83e141502f
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/zq1/xli-1.16-301.src.rpm
8abca3e1af92ccfea799c3b1da6f333e
SuSE-6.3
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/gra2/xli-1.16-301.alpha.rpm
76f134e228a39a440c517a3dc673b250
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/zq1/xli-1.16-301.src.rpm
88dbb49098cc0120e72b4ac4b357c1d8
PPC Power PC Platform:
SuSE-7.1
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/gra2/xli-1.16-304.ppc.rpm
52df89afc2aef3752bc968b7e179e85b
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/zq1/xli-1.16-304.src.rpm
00d53cae7c9d856069f720abb746c173
SuSE-7.0
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/gra2/xli-1.16-304.ppc.rpm
065b0453669abfad9d7afd51f9712c22
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/zq1/xli-1.16-304.src.rpm
d536054cff521e6f62cc01ef16f910ce
SuSE-6.4
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/gra2/xli-1.16-304.ppc.rpm
efbd1b48104f53cef252d3e40918303c
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/zq1/xli-1.16-304.src.rpm
310f59a98f63b78d8d3f528aa85546c2
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2) Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds:
- dqs
dex@raza-mexicana.org has found an exploitable buffer overflow bug in
the dsh program from the dqs package on SuSE Linux distributions.
To workaround the problem, do "chmod -s /usr/bin/dsh" and change the
files /etc/permissions* to reflect the change. If you do not need the
dqs package, then deinstall it (rpm -e dqs).
Packages for most of the supported SuSE Linux distributions are
available at the usual location ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/<arch>/<dist>
for download and installation/update. Do not forget to change the files
/etc/permissions* to remove the suid-bit from the dsh program. Please
note that we will not issue a dedicated security announcement for this
specific bug.
- pcp
Paul Starzetz discovered a security weakness in the setuid root program
/usr/share/pcp/bin/pmpost. The common library in pcp trusts the
environment that has been supplied by the user, regardless of privileged
execution or not. By consequence, a user can specify the configuration
file and therefore write to files owned by root. The problem is not based
on insecurely following symlinks as stated by Paul Starzetz.
The pcp package is not installed by default in SuSE Linux distributions.
We have provided update packages for the SuSE Linux distributions version
7.1 and 7.2 that remove the setuid bit from the pmpost binary. Versions
before SuSE-7.1 were not affected because the setuid bit was not set.
We thank Keith Owens and Mark Goodwin from Silicon Graphics for responding
quickly and for publishing a new version of the pcp package which will
be included in future releases of the SuSE Linux distribution. For more
information see the /usr/share/doc/packages/pcp directory of your SuSE
Linux installation after installing the update package, or go to
obtained from http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/download .
Please note that there will not be a dedicated security announcement
for this specific bug.
- fetchmail (fetchml)
New fetchmail packages are available on the ftp server. The packages
cure a buffer overflow that can be exploited by sending a victim a
specially designed email, waiting for the victim's fetchmail program
to pick up the email. We are preparing a security announcement for this
problem.
- openssh
update packages for the openssh package after (and including) SuSE-6.4
are available on our ftp servers ftp.suse.de (for < 7.1) or
ftp.suse.com (for >= 7.1). We are currently checking for a non-security
related irregularity in sshd's behaviour under faulty setup conditions.
- exim
SuSE Linux distributions do not contain the exim Mail Transport Agent
(See http://www.exim.org/ for details) and are therefore not susceptible
to the recently found security-related bugs.
- webmin
SuSE Linux distributions do not contain the webmin administration
web frontend (See http://www.webmin.org/ for details) and are therefore
not vulnerable to the recently found security-related problems in the
software.
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3) 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
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Thomas Biege