Debian GNU/Linux Advisory: freesweep

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in freesweep, when processing several environment variables. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to gain gid 'games'.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.88-4woody1.

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

We recommend that you update your freesweep 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:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 604 3b4fcb708f68923f54b4e6e9a75cdf2f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 23476 8aa97d3f8d182be549621937a1de34a7
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 72711 cfcbe96ee572d4e737da3166f20c3f85

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 41584 a80ee65d7609074a5fd0bb72a89d35c8

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 35648 42e0fea755cf1de15b96b6441bbca232

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 35920 f4d5a64504e5f47aecd81178826c9386

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 49758 b85c448dc51c6abf177287064e458ec2

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 40832 da4299857ed94f24e99581fc8aa7c55b

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 33690 edf0a457199e07e44c3c7b787ab50466

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 37940 2a33af6b5b6fc76e67708768492d4e10

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 37982 3a106328946d6115590228df1112e8b3

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 36332 03da264cc52ea053cfa19c96ee0a56dd

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 36576 25ba7c0f70f83c2081b7b47a74b3b579

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freesweep/freesweep_0.88-4woody1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 38638 f59794b6e93379516b6a2b979b4a2db8

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