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USN-238-2: Blender vulnerability

6 January 2006

Blender vulnerability

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Releases

Details

Damian Put discovered that Blender did not properly validate a
'length' value in .blend files. Negative values led to an
insufficiently sized memory allocation. By tricking a user into
opening a specially crafted .blend file, this could be exploited to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Blender user.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 5.10
  • blender -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References