Debian Security Advisory
DSA-609-1 atari800 -- buffer overflows
- Date Reported:
- 14 Dec 2004
- Affected Packages:
- atari800
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1076.
- More information:
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Adam Zabrocki discovered multiple buffer overflows in atari800, an Atari emulator. In order to directly access graphics hardware, one of the affected programs is installed setuid root. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.2-1woody3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your atari800 package immediately.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.