Debian Security Advisory

DSA-484-1 xonix -- failure to drop privileges

Date Reported:
14 Apr 2004
Affected Packages:
xonix
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10149.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0157.
More information:

Steve Kemp discovered a vulnerability in xonix, a game, where an external program was invoked while retaining setgid privileges. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain gid "games".

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem will be fixed in version 1.4-19woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your xonix package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.