Debian Security Advisory

DSA-391-1 freesweep -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

28 Sep 2003

Affected Packages:

freesweep

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-2003-0828.

More information:

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in freesweep, when processing several environment variables. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to gain gid 'games'.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.88-4woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your freesweep package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_sparc.deb

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