Debian Security Advisory
DSA-354-1 xconq -- buffer overflows
- Date Reported:
- 29 Jul 2003
- Affected Packages:
- xconq
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 8307.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0607. - More information:
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Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in xconq, in processing the USER environment variable. In the process of fixing this bug, a similar problem was discovered with the DISPLAY environment variable. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local attacker to gain gid 'games'.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 7.4.1-2woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. Refer to Debian bug #202963.
We recommend that you update your xconq package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq-common_7.4.1-2woody2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq-doc_7.4.1-2woody2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq-doc_7.4.1-2woody2_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.