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gatos: buffer overflow

Package(s):

gatos

CVE #(s):

CAN-2005-0016

Created:

January 17, 2005

Updated:

January 17, 2005

Description:

Erik Sjölund discovered a buffer overflow in xatitv, one of the programs in the gatos package, that is used to display video with certain ATI video cards. xatitv is installed setuid root in order to gain direct access to the video hardware.

Alerts:

Debian

DSA-640-1

2005-01-17

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