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Dia Multiple Format String Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA20199
Release Date: 2006-05-22
Last Update: 2006-05-30
Popularity: 8,541 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Dia 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-2453
CVE-2006-2480


Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Dia, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) A format string error within the handling of filenames for diagram files may be exploited to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a file with a specially crafted filename via the "Open Diagram" dialog box.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 0.94 and 0.95. Other versions may also be affected.

2) Some format string errors in the processing of dia files may be exploited to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted dia file.

Solution:
Update to version 0.95-1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) KaDaL-X
2) Hans de Goede

Changelog:
2006-05-24: Added additional vulnerabilities provided by Hans de Goede.
2006-05-25: Updated advisory.
2006-05-30: Updated "Solution" section.

Original Advisory:
http://kandangjamur.net/tutorial/dia.txt
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342111
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-286-1
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=420482


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