Debian Security Advisory
DSA-625-1 pcal -- buffer overflows
- Date Reported:
- 05 Jan 2005
- Affected Packages:
- pcal
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 287039.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1289. - More information:
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Danny Lungstrom discovered two buffer overflows in pcal, a program to generate Postscript calendars, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when compiling a calendar.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 4.7-8woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 4.8.0-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your pcal package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.