DSA-451-1 xboing -- buffer overflows

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-451-1 xboing -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:

27 Feb 2004

Affected Packages:

xboing

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9764.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0149.

More information:

Steve Kemp discovered a number of buffer overflow vulnerabilities in xboing, a game, which could be exploited by a local attacker to gain gid "games".

For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.4-26woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.4-26.1.

We recommend that you update your xboing package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xboing/xboing_2.4-26woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xboing/xboing_2.4-26woody1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xboing/xboing_2.4.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xboing/xboing_2.4-26woody1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xboing/xboing_2.4-26woody1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xboing/xboing_2.4-26woody1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xboing/xboing_2.4-26woody1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xboing/xboing_2.4-26woody1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xboing/xboing_2.4-26woody1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xboing/xboing_2.4-26woody1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xboing/xboing_2.4-26woody1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xboing/xboing_2.4-26woody1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xboing/xboing_2.4-26woody1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xboing/xboing_2.4-26woody1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.