Debian Security Advisory

DSA-359-1 atari800 -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:

31 Jul 2003

Affected Packages:

atari800

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-2003-0630.

More information:

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

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.2-1woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. Refer to Debian bug #203707.

We recommend that you update your atari800 package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody2.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_1.2.2-1woody2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/atari800/atari800_1.2.2-1woody2_sparc.deb

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