Debian Security Advisory
DSA-675-1 hztty -- privilege escalation
- Date Reported:
- 10 Feb 2005
- Affected Packages:
- hztty
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0019.
- More information:
-
Erik Sjölund discovered that hztty, a converter for GB, Big5 and zW/HZ Chinese encodings in a tty session, can be triggered to execute arbitrary commands with group utmp privileges.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0-5.2woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0-6.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your hztty package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.