Debian Security Advisory

DSA-847-1 dia -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

08 Oct 2005

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 330890.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 15000.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2966.

More information:

Joxean Koret discovered that the Python SVG import plugin in dia, a vector-oriented diagram editor, does not properly sanitise data read from an SVG file and is hence vulnerable to execute arbitrary Python code.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.94.0-7sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.94.0-15.

We recommend that you upgrade your dia package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia_0.94.0-7sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia_0.94.0-7sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia_0.94.0.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-common_0.94.0-7sarge1_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia_0.94.0-7sarge1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-gnome_0.94.0-7sarge1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-libs_0.94.0-7sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia_0.94.0-7sarge1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-gnome_0.94.0-7sarge1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-libs_0.94.0-7sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia_0.94.0-7sarge1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-gnome_0.94.0-7sarge1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-libs_0.94.0-7sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia_0.94.0-7sarge1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-gnome_0.94.0-7sarge1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-libs_0.94.0-7sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia_0.94.0-7sarge1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-gnome_0.94.0-7sarge1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-libs_0.94.0-7sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia_0.94.0-7sarge1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-gnome_0.94.0-7sarge1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-libs_0.94.0-7sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia_0.94.0-7sarge1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-gnome_0.94.0-7sarge1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-libs_0.94.0-7sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia_0.94.0-7sarge1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-gnome_0.94.0-7sarge1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-libs_0.94.0-7sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia_0.94.0-7sarge1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-gnome_0.94.0-7sarge1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-libs_0.94.0-7sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia_0.94.0-7sarge1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-gnome_0.94.0-7sarge1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-libs_0.94.0-7sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia_0.94.0-7sarge1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-gnome_0.94.0-7sarge1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-libs_0.94.0-7sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia_0.94.0-7sarge1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-gnome_0.94.0-7sarge1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dia/dia-libs_0.94.0-7sarge1_sparc.deb

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