DSA-408-1 screen -- integer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-408-1 screen -- integer overflow

Date Reported:

05 Jan 2004

Affected Packages:

screen

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9117.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0972.

More information:

Timo Sirainen reported a vulnerability in screen, a terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation, that can lead an attacker to gain group utmp privileges.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.9.11-5woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.2-0.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your screen package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/screen/screen_3.9.11-5woody1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.