Debian Security Advisory

DSA-301-1 libgtop -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

07 May 2003

Affected Packages:

libgtop

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-2001-0928.

More information:

The gtop daemon, used for monitoring remote machines, contains a buffer overflow which could be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the daemon process. If started as root, the daemon process drops root privileges, assuming uid and gid 99 by default.

This bug was previously fixed in DSA-098, but one of the patches was not carried over to later versions of libgtop.

For the stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.13-3.1.

For the old stable distribution (potato), this problem was fixed in DSA-098.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.13-4.

We recommend that you update your libgtop package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop_1.0.13-3.1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop_1.0.13-3.1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop_1.0.13.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-daemon_1.0.13-3.1_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-dev_1.0.13-3.1_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop1_1.0.13-3.1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-daemon_1.0.13-3.1_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-dev_1.0.13-3.1_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop1_1.0.13-3.1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-daemon_1.0.13-3.1_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-dev_1.0.13-3.1_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop1_1.0.13-3.1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-daemon_1.0.13-3.1_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-dev_1.0.13-3.1_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop1_1.0.13-3.1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-daemon_1.0.13-3.1_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-dev_1.0.13-3.1_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop1_1.0.13-3.1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-daemon_1.0.13-3.1_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-dev_1.0.13-3.1_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop1_1.0.13-3.1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-daemon_1.0.13-3.1_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-dev_1.0.13-3.1_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop1_1.0.13-3.1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-daemon_1.0.13-3.1_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-dev_1.0.13-3.1_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop1_1.0.13-3.1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-daemon_1.0.13-3.1_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-dev_1.0.13-3.1_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop1_1.0.13-3.1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-daemon_1.0.13-3.1_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-dev_1.0.13-3.1_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop1_1.0.13-3.1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-daemon_1.0.13-3.1_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop-dev_1.0.13-3.1_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgtop/libgtop1_1.0.13-3.1_sparc.deb

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