Category Archives: Debian

Debian Security Advisories

DSA-3807 icoutils – security update

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the icotool and wrestool
tools of Icoutils, a set of programs that deal with MS Windows icons and
cursors, which may result in denial of service or the execution of
arbitrary code if a malformed .ico or .exe file is processed.

DSA-3806 pidgin – security update

It was discovered a vulnerability in Pidgin, a multi-protocol instant
messaging client. A server controlled by an attacker can send an invalid
XML that can trigger an out-of-bound memory access. This might lead to a
crash or, in some extreme cases, to remote code execution in the
client-side.

DSA-3803 texlive-base – security update

It was discovered that texlive-base, the TeX Live package which provides
the essential TeX programs and files, whitelists mpost as an external
program to be run from within the TeX source code (called write18).
Since mpost allows to specify other programs to be run, an attacker can
take advantage of this flaw for arbitrary code execution when compiling
a TeX document.

DSA-3801 ruby-zip – security update

It was discovered that ruby-zip, a Ruby module for reading and writing
zip files, is prone to a directory traversal vulnerability. An attacker
can take advantage of this flaw to overwrite arbitrary files during
archive extraction via a .. (dot dot) in an extracted filename.