Debian Security Advisory
DSA-309-1 eterm -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 06 Jun 2003
- Affected Packages:
- eterm
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7708.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0382. - More information:
-
"bazarr" discovered that eterm is vulnerable to a buffer overflow of the ETERMPATH environment variable. This bug can be exploited to gain the privileges of the group "utmp" on a system where eterm is installed.
For the stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1.
The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by this bug.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your eterm package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eterm/eterm_0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eterm/eterm_0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eterm/eterm_0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eterm/eterm_0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eterm/eterm_0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eterm/eterm_0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eterm/eterm_0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eterm/eterm_0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eterm/eterm_0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eterm/eterm_0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eterm/eterm_0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eterm/eterm_0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eterm/eterm_0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eterm/eterm_0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.