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Debian Security Advisory DSA 354-1 securityat_private
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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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-announceat_private
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/>
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