-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 640-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 17th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : gatos Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0016 Erik Sjölund discovered a buffer overflow in xatitv, one of the programs in the gatos package, that is used to display video with certain ATI video cards. xatitv is installed setuid root in order to gain direct access to the video hardware. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.5-6woody3. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.5-15. We recommend that you upgrade your gatos 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/g/gatos/gatos_0.0.5-6woody3.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 629 0005020205c97ebd6f2efdf146846c15 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gatos/gatos_0.0.5-6woody3.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 40976 34933c1e1da0fbb172ab919e23b68e02 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gatos/gatos_0.0.5.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 483916 9c16631afc933bde6f5d5e1421efddb7 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gatos/gatos_0.0.5-6woody3_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 148110 2d2e9c2ba2d429175cab205c6ce6860d http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gatos/libgatos-dev_0.0.5-6woody3_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 109748 4c1d0a17839934a2c818e314c5d7d3b2 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gatos/libgatos0_0.0.5-6woody3_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 75460 bc27c6c2ec12dab3b6b3e164ee8f05f2 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB62YyW5ql+IAeqTIRAt4LAJ4zgTFIfT7BxlVhMffji2zgXLSwUgCePtaw HrHvLmmbzoeKAmy3ZtbM3kI= =HeLT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----