Debian Security Advisory

DSA-655-1 zhcon -- missing privilege release

Date Reported:
25 Jan 2005
Affected Packages:
zhcon
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0072.
More information:

Erik Sjölund discovered that zhcon, a fast console CJK system using the Linux framebuffer, accesses a user-controlled configuration file with elevated privileges. Thus, it is possible to read arbitrary files.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2-4woody3.

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

We recommend that you upgrade your zhcon package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_sparc.deb

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