USN-934-1: Netpbm vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• netpbm-free -

Details

Marc Schoenefeld discovered a buffer overflow in Netpbm when loading
certain images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a
specially crafted XPM image, a remote attacker could crash Netpbm. The
default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the
vulnerability to a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.10

• netpbm - 2:10.0-12ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 9.04

• netpbm - 2:10.0-12ubuntu0.9.04.1

Ubuntu 8.04

• netpbm - 2:10.0-11.1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-4274