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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53748
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-695-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'xli' package(s) announced via the DSA-695-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'xli' package(s) announced via the DSA-695-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in xli, an image viewer for X11. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CAN-2001-0775

A buffer overflow in the decoder for FACES format images could be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This problem has already been fixed in xloadimage in DSA 069.

CAN-2005-0638

Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has reported a flaw in the handling of compressed images, where shell meta-characters are not adequately escaped.

CAN-2005-0639

Insufficient validation of image properties in have been discovered which could potentially result in buffer management errors.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.17.0-11woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.17.0-18.

We recommend that you upgrade your xli package.

Affected Software/OS:
'xli' package(s) on Debian 3.0.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2001-0775
BugTraq ID: 3006
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3006
Bugtraq: 20010710 xloadimage remote exploit - tstot.c (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/195823
Debian Security Information: DSA-069 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-069
Debian Security Information: DSA-695 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-695
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-05.xml
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-088.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SA:2001:024 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2001_024_xli_txt.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/6821.php
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-0638
BugTraq ID: 12712
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12712
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433935/30/5010/threaded
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-05.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/14365
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10898
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-332.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/14459
http://secunia.com/advisories/14462
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-0639
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