Debian Security Advisory
DSA-484-1 xonix -- failure to drop privileges
- Date Reported:
- 14 Apr 2004
- Affected Packages:
- xonix
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10149.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0157. - More information:
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Steve Kemp discovered a vulnerability in xonix, a game, where an external program was invoked while retaining setgid privileges. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain gid "games".
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem will be fixed in version 1.4-19woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your xonix package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.