Debian Security Advisory
DSA-391-1 freesweep -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 28 Sep 2003
- Affected Packages:
- freesweep
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0828.
- More information:
-
Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in freesweep, when processing several environment variables. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to gain gid 'games'.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.88-4woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your freesweep package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.