Bug 600729 (CVE-2010-4743, CVE-2010-4744)

Summary:	CVE-2010-4743 CVE-2010-4744 Abcm2ps v5.9.13: Multiple security vulnerabilities
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	gemi
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://moinejf.free.fr/abcm2ps-5.txt
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Fixed In Version:	abcm2ps 5.9.13	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-06-05 18:56:43 UTC

Abcm2ps upstream has released latest v5.9.13 version,
fixing "yet more multiple unspecified vulnerabilities":
  [1] http://moinejf.free.fr/abcm2ps-5.txt

Current versions of abcm2ps package, present in Fedora release
of 11, 12, and 13, are v5.9.5 based (and potentially vulnerable).

Please rebase to new version to overcome these.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2010-12-16 21:54:49 UTC

Created abcm2ps tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 663809]

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-02-19 18:32:06 UTC

The CVE identifier of CVE-2010-4744 has been assigned to the following
vulnerability:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in abcm2ps before 5.9.13 have
unknown impact and attack vectors, a different issue than
CVE-2010-3441.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4744
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=577014
[3] http://moinejf.free.fr/abcm2ps-5.txt
[4] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/054015.html
[5] http://secunia.com/advisories/43338
[6] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0390

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-02-19 18:34:18 UTC

The CVE identifier of CVE-2010-4743 has been assigned to the following
vulnerability:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the getarena function in abc2ps.c in
abcm2ps before 5.9.13 might allow remote attackers to execute
arbitrary code via a crafted ABC file, a different vulnerability than
CVE-2010-3441. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third
party information.

References:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=577014
[2] http://moinejf.free.fr/abcm2ps-5.txt
[3] http://secunia.com/advisories/40033
[4] http://secunia.com/advisories/43338
[5] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0390