Debian Security Advisory
DSA-655-1 zhcon -- missing privilege release
- Date Reported:
- 25 Jan 2005
- Affected Packages:
- zhcon
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0072.
- More information:
-
Erik Sjölund discovered that zhcon, a fast console CJK system using the Linux framebuffer, accesses a user-controlled configuration file with elevated privileges. Thus, it is possible to read arbitrary files.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2-4woody3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your zhcon package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zhcon/zhcon_0.2-4woody3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.