atar800 contains a buffer overflow which could be used by an attacker
to gain root privileges. Altough the atari800 package in Gentoo does not
install any files suid root we encourage our users to upgrade.
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
app-emulation/atari800 upgrade to atari800-1.3.0-r1 as follows:
emerge sync
emerge atari800
emerge clean
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aliz (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] - GnuPG key is available at http://dev.gentoo.org/~aliz
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200309-07
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PACKAGE : atari800
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
DATE : 2003-09-02 14:03 UTC
EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <atari800-1.3.0-r1
FIXED VERSION : >=atari800-1.3.0-r1
CVE : CAN-2003-0630
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atar800 contains a buffer overflow which could be used by an attacker
to gain root privileges. Altough the atari800 package in Gentoo does not
install any files suid root we encourage our users to upgrade.
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
app-emulation/atari800 upgrade to atari800-1.3.0-r1 as follows:
emerge sync
emerge atari800
emerge clean
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aliz (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] - GnuPG key is available at http://dev.gentoo.org/~aliz
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