Debian Security Advisory
DSA-082-1 xvt -- Buffer Overflow
- Date Reported:
- 18 Oct 2001
- Affected Packages:
- xvt
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 2964.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2001-1561. - More information:
-
Christophe Bailleux reported on bugtraq that Xvt is vulnerable to a
buffer overflow in its argument handling. Since Xvt is installed
setuid root, it was possible for a normal user to pass
carefully-crafted arguments to xvt so that xvt executed a root shell.
This problem has been fixed by the maintainer in version 2.1-13 of xvt for Debian unstable and 2.1-13.0potato.1 for the stable Debian GNU/Linux 2.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your xvt package immediately.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xvt_2.1-13.0potato.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xvt_2.1-13.0potato.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xvt_2.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xvt_2.1-13.0potato.1.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/xvt_2.1-13.0potato.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/xvt_2.1-13.0potato.1_arm.deb
- Intel ia32:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/xvt_2.1-13.0potato.1_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/xvt_2.1-13.0potato.1_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/xvt_2.1-13.0potato.1_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/xvt_2.1-13.0potato.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.