DSA-684-1 typespeed -- format string

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-684-1 typespeed -- format string

Date Reported:

16 Feb 2005

Affected Packages:

typespeed

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0105.

More information:

Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a problem in typespeed, a touch-typist trainer disguised as game. This could lead to a local attacker executing arbitrary code as group games.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.1-2.3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your typespeed package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_sparc.deb

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