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Debian: DSA 609-1 Critical: Atari800 Buffer Overflow Local Exploit

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2004
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This notice outlines a remedy for the dosbox emulator's security vulnerability arising from buffer overflow issues on Ubuntu platforms.
Adam Zabrocki discovered multiple buffer overflows in atari800, an Atari emulator

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your atari800 package immediately.


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: 652 ca843252c5698eb4df665ba61a26f449
Size/MD5 checksum: 17761 2ffbb3a4956a7ad09e59562345f9bef2
Size/MD5 checksum: 460211 17f40bab7f2cdf2968df46e37285dcd1

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 298862 a6fd1bdaba8d397f1774906671361ca4

ARM a...

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: atari800
CVE ID: CAN-2004-1076

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