Dia multiple buffer overflows infamous41md discovered three buffer overflows in Dia's xfig importer. The issues are caused by unchecked input from the xfig file. The patch can be found here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2006-March/msg00149.html This issue also affects RHEL2.1
Created attachment 127062 [details] Demo Exploit #1
Created attachment 127063 [details] Demo Exploit #2
Created attachment 127064 [details] Demo Exploit #3
For bug 187559, RHEL-4 has been rebuilt and mkerrata re-ran# dist-4E-errata-candidate dia-0.94-5.3
dist-2.1AS-errata-candidate dia-0.88.1-3.2 has been respun and mkerrata run for RHEL-2.1 to pick-up fixed buildroot.
RHEL-4 packages rebuilt to avoid huge mem alloc on invalid record size and mkerrata has been rerun for RHEL-4 dist-4E-errata-candidate dia-0.94-5.4
An advisory 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-2006-0280.html