[SECURITY] [DSA-354-1] New xconq packages fix buffer overflows

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 354-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
July 29th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

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Package : xconq
Vulnerability : buffer overflows
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids : CAN-2003-0607

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in xconq, in processing the
USER environment variable. In the process of fixing this bug, a
similar problem was discovered with the DISPLAY environment
variable. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local attacker
to gain gid 'games'.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed
in version 7.4.1-2woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
Refer to Debian bug #202963.

We recommend that you update your xconq package.

Upgrade Instructions

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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody

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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:      659 21842c8a96442ba3fb5339485c8bc83e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2.diff.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:    36648 4ad0be0f65d303d85cd15c7b3a0ba2aa
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1.orig.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:  3401768 2b3eaa6ae341f64d32a4d8c361aa0456

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq-common_7.4.1-2woody2_all.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1243930 a5bf65b7a6f969cc6ea892dcb5561442
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq-doc_7.4.1-2woody2_all.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1279490 6ad1a14bece922518105dc59e3dec3a2

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   765484 901f3fa5491b5ca3cb6e9c6777d7d7fd

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   662772 40e6eebdbc310e9aa41f8d5fa703c42d

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   591832 882d76656a399ff29d682926177eaf18

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_ia64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1234652 15e58939c9fa6730791ae857432e30e5

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_hppa.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   647046 59f689429d17a95858157d71ebbabdfe

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_m68k.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   545314 4f792331fd5a376676e5992b6d7523ee

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_mips.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   693316 0e3a8eff3df06a5612d79f49a8a1eab7

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_mipsel.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   690160 03a263baebbcaef62ef0ccf329ccc874

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_powerpc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   585610 68313a2e1e5a5a1e8b66883894f296e9

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_s390.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   587336 ef95a0305f193e14ebfcc086381a15f1

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xconq/xconq_7.4.1-2woody2_sparc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   604292 632d2a38d285c3aea6ca240f9bd9329c

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.

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Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;