Debian Security Advisory
DSA-462-1 xitalk -- missing privilege release
- Date Reported:
- 12 Mar 2004
- Affected Packages:
- xitalk
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9851.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0151. - More information:
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Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a problem in xitalk, a talk intercept utility for the X Window System. A local user can exploit this problem and execute arbitrary commands under the GID utmp. This could be used by an attacker to remove traces from the utmp file.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.11-9.1woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your xitalk package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.