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Debian update for ketm
Secunia Advisory: SA18225
Release Date: 2005-12-27
Popularity: 5,593 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-3535


Description:
Steve Kemp has reported a vulnerability in ketm, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in support.c when formatting an error message for display. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long command line argument and may be exploited to execute arbitrary code with group "games" privileges.

Solution:
Apply updated packages.

-- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody --

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 601 689826ac63e2c43800b4a95477e4e025
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 102455 3d95dffde08a37f92b547b0d5c5cdd1f
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 2300316 815dd1ec3d3e34ed563c2e8b846c1873

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2291294 d3ab0d5c4d226e85b22024ef26225118

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2280012 770c1260ba4f98f207b933b85a76c77b

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2270074 e7d544f6a7c93053e10e6dc57a9cdeca

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2314582 157ce41e4b56f4d04a51ea26e45ea701

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2304688 ae0eee4fac599d235df518c8aed02220

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2265824 e7cf4caad4048013762bf2eef7fbe53c

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2285898 22b5967929450cfae83a009a864a0428

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updat.../k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2285466 67ad79342e043766c18d331d19927928

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updat...k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2283386 dabfa2d80c5178e7794a45c438dbd405

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2272008 92da299f8c913fdf9bd8decf4176cf2c

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2276286 3baa3ec01cdb1f9288af03703cfa27d5

-- Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge --

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 618 c16dea02615d3d54ad809da66f353567
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 49309 1db837fff1b5ed5e2a37bc6b3874ca70
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 2300316 815dd1ec3d3e34ed563c2e8b846c1873

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updat...ketm/ketm-data_0.0.6-17sarge1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2228258 f8e0206d18cb928629636ace10ad898c

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updat.../k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 100182 504db7244cfb3fa3f850d0ee174bf476

AMD64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updat.../k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 69582 2c2efd63e76afe5c680193d489815dec

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 69122 30ff71419a3e106bd067a983ed3db30f

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 61034 a8d7eae4795a1caa3c47dca929e93254

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 126326 728cd5e277b43ac8aef87cf092478168

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 89424 22aba3b17b99631d559d59d19ca0f669

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 50590 ac31fa12be1ac3fad1596d54a41e593b

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 79420 2663c4a81111c9d3c9f43737a6899666

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updat...k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 79134 c461cd34b6ced500a3622ebaf51bd07b

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updat.../ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 83890 01c28fdaa89ec3aef148c0ac0dc1656a

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 63110 dd95bef4893b7e5a0722d462a3374c6f

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updat.../k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 73232 8e4594ac0f872bad24ef232accb00d9a

-- Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid --

Fixed in version 0.0.6-17sarge1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Steve Kemp

Original Advisory:
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-926


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