USN-238-2: Blender vulnerability

Publication date

6 January 2006

Overview

Blender vulnerability

Releases


Details

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.

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.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
5.10 breezy blender – 

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