-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 484-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman April 14th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : xonix Vulnerability : failure to drop privileges Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2004-0157 Steve Kemp discovered a vulnerability in xonix, a game, where an external program was invoked while retaining setgid privileges. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain gid "games". For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem will be fixed in version 1.4-19woody1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you update your xonix package. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- 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 - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 586 6f26d5b08dbeadab0cfe72724e4a7f7f http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 5738 60429284d637729799c230d18e301d55 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 44533 c53a8d9dcdb44a6e62a63913dc9e2610 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 28266 8182ecc198a51bba3556d5222835437c ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 25188 abfc1957fe2ac0adef9562b06037156b Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 23256 a8dd1ba031684de6cf4c80749217c3eb Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 34190 0b3a3255f062aa83945633a51f3c3fe5 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 26540 b54c3819a331ae6c5b5bd0345bff14dd Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 22524 c504fbffd9b8f12d529ee89e0bdd24c0 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 26532 3189246548f72ea3bfec76785b890735 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 26376 78365a237af4c9b0a1d2682071a66b55 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 24944 fa8a7607397c1569806bd00c0870c3df IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 25754 c6c0c542a92be4962b6ba26510ee5588 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xonix/xonix_1.4-19woody1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 27086 1a1cfb8adeb548358dda307c83c54d53 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAfdyHArxCt0PiXR4RAnpZAJ0buaDqhCi+sEUr/nR2wRrJBMv0rgCeJ9Y1 YphpCQD293Ax9PHm/iGZ2yA= =xXJ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----