Bug#280373: kfax libtiff vulnerabilities
On Monday 08 November 2004 10:13 pm, Chris Cheney wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 09:35:30PM -0500, Josh Metzler wrote:
> > On Monday 08 November 2004 07:46 pm, Chris Cheney wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:37:55AM +0100, Andreas Mueller wrote:
> > > > Package: kfax
> > > > Version: 4:3.3.1-1
> > > > Severity: normal
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -- cut from the inoffical KDE Security Advisory --
> > > >
> > > > kfax, a small utility for displaying fax files, contains
> > > > for historic reasons a private copy of libtiff.
> > > > Therefore it is vulnerable to these issues as well.
> > > >
> > > > As a workaround, you can remove the kfax binary and the
> > > > kfax_multipage KPart from your system to be on the safe
> > > > side. A new package is now on ktown.
> > > >
> > > > This issue is already sort-of public because Red Hat already
> > > > announced it as part of their kdegraphics update.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > amu
> > >
> > > The kfax in kdegraphics 3.3.1-1 deb is already fixed afaik, they
> > > removed libtiff from kdegraphics source and use libtiff-tools instead.
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> > It is not fixed in kdegraphics 3.3.1-1. I just downloaded the source
> > (apt-get source kdegraphics), and the kfax.cpp is the version dated July
> > 12, 2004 which is in the tagged KDE_3_3_1_RELEASE. The fix was committed
> > to both KDE_3_3_BRANCH and KDE_3_2_BRANCH on October 16, 2004. The 3.2
> > branch was refixed on October 23.
>
> Did you happen to look at the source after
> debian/patches/01_kdegraphics_branch.diff.uu is applied? The orig.tar.gz
> is not patched directly of course...
>
> Chris
Sorry, but I did not. I didn't realize the patching happened during the build
process and not when the sources were extracted.
Josh
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