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Debian Security Advisory DSA 326-1                     security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                              Matt Zimmerman
June 19th, 2003                          Debian -- Debian security FAQ 
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Package        : orville-write
Vulnerability  : buffer overflows
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids        : CAN-2003-0441

Orville Write, a replacement for the standard write(1) command,
contains a number of buffer overflows.  These could be exploited to
gain either gid tty or root privileges, depending on the configuration
selected when the package is installed.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.53-4woody1.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain an orville-write
package.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
See Debian bug report #170747.

We recommend that you update your orville-write 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:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:      589 170c84e5c499f942ca625cb0f10e2bbe
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:     4882 f9147a6f6c6d69e954d024fbaf789ecf
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    75717 9dafdab825157df8377ce67a3c0eb2a5

  Alpha architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    63424 aa2124137efcafbf9baceb196a942564

  ARM architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    52108 89c8970e2523fe6a98a053ae9bb1e997

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    51938 fb5d8e11b58013abd377e9425a8aab39

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    71988 df14d6a8f997ceec1acb348a8cb92b56

  HP Precision architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    58534 b384d176de75d907dd08e723f701d6ed

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    51098 ac0307daa1d4c6abfe7810a85fd49589

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    57830 4507261a670f4c50605bb84170a705b2

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    57154 130d5d0d7e6d55145fe690f0de7d2a8e

  PowerPC architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    51760 20d239c6aca202dc4a5bec07ba772219

  IBM S/390 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    54224 cb98e4b5fff39313b865978647f74ee5

  Sun Sparc architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    60146 a5714352ef8e50bdbede1600afce7041

  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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