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Secunia issues Blender security warning

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Secunia.com issued the following security advisory yesterday:

Blender "get_bhead()" Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Damian Put has reported a vulnerability in Blender, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to potentially compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow in "get_bhead()" in "readfile.c" when parsing ".blend" files. This can be exploited to cause a heap based buffer overflow by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted ".blend" file.

This vulnerability has been fixed in 2.40 so if you haven't already, upgrade now. If you ask me, embedded Python scripts are a much bigger risk so it's always a good idea to check the source of a .blend file before you open one.

You can read the full advisory here.

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Bart Veldhuizen

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.

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