Re: FreeXL 1.0.2 - multiplication overflow on 32 bit platforms
On 07/19/2015 01:38 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:42:41PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 07/19/2015 12:04 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:35:25PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>>>> Dear Security Team,
>>>>
>>>> FreeXL 1.0.2 was released yesterday, it fixes a recently discovered
>>>> security issue. To quote the release announcement:
>>>>
>>>> "
>>>> RedHat maintainers recently discovered a potential security breach
>>>> caused by the current version of FreeXL.
>>>>
>>>> This issue is not very like to happen under ordinary conditions, anyway
>>>> a purposely forged XLS document could effectively cause a
>>>> multiplication overflow on 32 bit platforms, and this in turn will
>>>> subsequently cause a dangerous crash due to an incorrectly sized
>>>> memory allocation.
>>>> freexl-1.0.2 definitely fixes the issue.
>>>> "
>>>>
>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/spatialite-users/UZ7ivR6ASV0/K_8bjP1or_IJ
>>>>
>>>> I've uploaded freexl (1.0.2-1) to unstable today, and I've backported
>>>> the fix to freexl (1.0.0g-1+deb8u2) and freexl (1.0.0b-1+deb7u2) for
>>>> jessie & wheezy respectively. The changes are available in git:
>>>>
>>>> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/freexl.git/log/?h=jessie
>>>> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/freexl.git/log/?h=wheezy
>>>>
>>>> Are these OK to upload?
>>>
>>> Yes, please upload to security-master. Since there have been freexl DSAs
>>> for wheezy and jessie before, they don't need to built with "-sa" this
>>> time.
>>
>> Thanks, uploaded.
>
> Sorry, I was confused by the version number for jessie, while named
> 1.0.0g-1+deb8u1 it was actually uploaded to unstable before the freeze.
> As a consequence dak rejected the upload, it does need to be rebuild with
> "-sa", sorry for the mixup.
Thanks for the notice, I've uploaded a new build with -sa.
Kind Regards,
Bas
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