Secure testing team - Apr 2008 - Bug#476603: acon: multiple buffer overflows

Package: acon
Version: 1.0.5-7
Severity: critical
Tags: security

In addition to the security bug mentioned in #475733, there are four 
buffer overflows that I have found.

acon.c:53 (already reported) and child.c:104
   A very large value of $HOME can create a buffer overflow with sprintf.  
   Use snprintf instead.
  
menu.c:100, menu.c:221, menu.c:243
   On terminals with greater than 211 columns (like some framebuffers), 
   the buffer line will be overflowed, since it only has 400 bytes of 
   space.  ((getmaxx()-10)*2)-2 > 400

These are critical due to the local root exploit contained in #475733.  
Once the setuid bug is fixed, these will become grave.

There may be more.  I have gone through the code as thoroughly as I 
could, but the code is barely legible and uses lots of fixed-sized 
buffers.  For these reasons, it is my recommendation that acon not be 
included in a stable release.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, ''unstable''), (1,
''experimental'')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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