Package : motor Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-3863 Debian Bug : 368400
Mehdi Oudad and Kevin Fernandez discovered a buffer overflow in the ktools library which is used in motor, an integrated development environment for C, C++ and Java, which may lead local attackers to execute arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.2-2woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.4.0-2sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.4.0-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your motor 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 at the end of this advisory:
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 - --------------------------------