-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : windowmaker SUMMARY : Remote buffer overflow DATE : 2001-08-13 18:11:00 ID : CLA-2001:411 RELEVANT RELEASES : 4.0, 4.0es, 4.1, 4.2, 5.0, prg graficos, ecommerce, 5.1, 6.0, 7.0 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Window Maker is a popular window manager. Robert Marshall reported a crash problem with Window Maker. Further investigation by Alban Hertroys showed this to be a buffer overflow in the window title handling code. Many applications, in particular web browsers, set the window title to something obtained from the network, such as the title of a webpage being viewed by an user. Thus this could be exploited remotely. The authors of Window Maker, with contributions from Alban Hertroys, released a new version (0.65.1) which addresses this vulnerability. A patch was made available for previous versions. SOLUTION It is recommended that all Window Maker users upgrade their packages. Versions below 0.65.1 have been patched to correct this vulnerability. IMPORTANT: after applying the update, Window Maker has to be restarted if it was running during the upgrade. To do this, select "Restart" from the "Exit" menu. REFERENCES: 1. http://www.windowmaker.org/src/ChangeLog DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS TO THE UPDATED PACKAGES ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.0/SRPMS/WindowMaker-0.60.0-8U40_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.0/i386/WindowMaker-0.60.0-8U40_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.0es/SRPMS/WindowMaker-0.60.0-8U40_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.0es/i386/WindowMaker-0.60.0-8U40_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.1/./4.1/i386/WindowMaker-0.60.0-10U41_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.1/./4.1/SRPMS/WindowMaker-0.60.0-10U41_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.2/SRPMS/WindowMaker-0.61.1-3U42_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.2/i386/WindowMaker-0.61.1-3U42_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/SRPMS/WindowMaker-0.61.1-7U50_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/i386/WindowMaker-0.61.1-7U50_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/SRPMS/WindowMaker-0.62.1-6U_51_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/i386/WindowMaker-0.62.1-6U_51_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/i386/WindowMaker-devel-0.62.1-6U_51_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/SRPMS/WindowMaker-0.62.1-13U60_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/WindowMaker-0.62.1-13U60_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/WindowMaker-devel-0.62.1-13U60_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/SRPMS/WindowMaker-0.65.1-2U70_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/WindowMaker-0.65.1-2U70_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/WindowMaker-doc-0.65.1-2U70_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/WindowMaker-devel-static-0.65.1-2U70_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/WindowMaker-devel-0.65.1-2U70_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/SRPMS/WindowMaker-0.61.1-7U50_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/i386/WindowMaker-0.61.1-7U50_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/SRPMS/WindowMaker-0.61.1-7U50_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/i386/WindowMaker-0.61.1-7U50_1cl.i386.rpm ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS Users of Conectiva Linux version 6.0 or higher may use apt to perform upgrades of RPM packages: - add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list if it is not there yet (you may also use linuxconf to do this): rpm [cncbr] ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br 6.0/conectiva updates (replace 6.0 with the correct version number if you are not running CL6.0) - run: apt-get update - after that, execute: apt-get upgrade Detailed instructions reagarding the use of apt and upgrade examples can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/#apt?idioma=en - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- All packages are signed with Conectiva's GPG key. 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