TITLE:
Atari800 Unspecified Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13670

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Atari800 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/1944/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Atari800, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified boundary errors and
can be exploited to cause buffer overflows.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with
escalated privileges, if the SVGAlib version is used in a setuid
binary.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.3.4.
http://atari800.sourceforge.net/download.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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