Debian Security Advisory
DSA-408-1 screen -- integer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 05 Jan 2004
- Affected Packages:
- screen
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9117.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0972. - More information:
-
Timo Sirainen reported a vulnerability in screen, a terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation, that can lead an attacker to gain group utmp privileges.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.9.11-5woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.2-0.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your screen package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.