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[DSA309] DSA-309-1 eterm

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-309-1 eterm

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

"bazarr" discovered that eterm is vulnerable to a buffer overflow of
the ETERMPATH environment variable. This bug can be exploited to gain
the rights of the group "utmp" on a system where eterm is
installed.
For the stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1.
The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by this bug.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your eterm package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-309
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 7708

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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