Bug 84586

Summary:	Multiple vulnerabilities in netpbm
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	netpbm	Assignee:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	2.1	CC:	kmaraas, rvokal
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Description Mark J. Cox 2003-02-19 09:19:59 UTC

This is not public until February 28th 2003

During an audit of the NetPBM library, Al Viro and Alan Cox found a number
of bugs that are potentially exploitable. These bugs could be exploited by
creating a carefully crafted image in such a way that it executes arbitrary
code when it is processed by either an application from the netpbm-progs
package or an application that uses the vulnerable netpbm library.

One way that an attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities would be to
submit a carefully crafted image to be printed, as the LPRng print spooler
used by default in Red Hat Linux releases uses netpbm utilities to parse
various types of image files.

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2003-02-19 09:20:36 UTC

errata RHSA-2003:061 in progress

Comment 2 Kjartan Maraas 2003-04-03 19:53:38 UTC

This was released now, right?

Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2003-04-04 09:35:35 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-061.html