DSA-609-1 atari800 -- buffer overflows

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-609-1 atari800 -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:

14 Dec 2004

Affected Packages:

atari800

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1076.

More information:

Adam Zabrocki discovered multiple buffer overflows in atari800, an Atari emulator. In order to directly access graphics hardware, one of the affected programs is installed setuid root. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.2-1woody3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your atari800 package immediately.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody3_sparc.deb

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