Package : bochs Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2007-2893
Tavis Ormandy discovered that bochs, a highly portable IA-32 PC emulator, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the emulated NE2000 network device driver, which may lead to privilege escalation.
For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.1+20041109-3sarge1.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3-2etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3+20070705-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your bochs packages.
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 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------