Debian Security Advisory

DSA-462-1 xitalk -- missing privilege release

Date Reported:
12 Mar 2004
Affected Packages:
xitalk
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9851.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0151.
More information:

Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a problem in xitalk, a talk intercept utility for the X Window System. A local user can exploit this problem and execute arbitrary commands under the GID utmp. This could be used by an attacker to remove traces from the utmp file.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.11-9.1woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your xitalk package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xitalk/xitalk_1.1.11-9.1woody1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.