Debian Security Advisory

DSA-640-1 gatos -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
17 Jan 2005
Affected Packages:
gatos
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0016.
More information:

Erik Sjölund discovered a buffer overflow in xatitv, one of the programs in the gatos package, that is used to display video with certain ATI video cards. xatitv is installed setuid root in order to gain direct access to the video hardware.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.5-6woody3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.5-15.

We recommend that you upgrade your gatos package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gatos/gatos_0.0.5-6woody3.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gatos/gatos_0.0.5-6woody3.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gatos/gatos_0.0.5.orig.tar.gz
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gatos/gatos_0.0.5-6woody3_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gatos/libgatos-dev_0.0.5-6woody3_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gatos/libgatos0_0.0.5-6woody3_i386.deb

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