A new Blender vulnerability update is available for Ubuntu Linux. Here the announcement:
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-238-2 January 06, 2006
blender vulnerability
CVE-2005-4470
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)
The following packages are affected:
blender
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 2.37a-1ubuntu1.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is
sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
The original advisory in USN-238-1 accidentially contained a wrong CVE
number and advisory text. We apologize for this error.
Details follow:
Damian Put discovered that Blender did not properly validate a
'length' value in .blend files. Negative values led to an
insufficiently sized memory allocation. By tricking a user into
opening a specially crafted .blend file, this could be exploited to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Blender user.
Source archives:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/blender/blender_2.37a-1ubuntu1.1.diff.gz
Size/MD5: 11607 282c2bc853abdd9fcadeb94fd42d293f
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/blender/blender_2.37a-1ubuntu1.1.dsc
Size/MD5: 759 f6d6c5fe8bba50202cb60db85a1f3240
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/blender/blender_2.37a.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5: 7885589 2af6afdb01c1d297c43602982d9a919c
amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/blender/blender_2.37a-1ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5: 4791610 926553266642bd9f625e1b27dccd23ff
i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/blender/blender_2.37a-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb
Size/MD5: 4113452 ee9f2a301ed054d9c56dd2412757465b
powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/blender/blender_2.37a-1ubuntu1.1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5: 4641056 8b75ee14b6ce089d7172c88343a1b821
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