DSA-398-1 conquest -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-398-1 conquest -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

10 Nov 2003

Affected Packages:

conquest

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 8996.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0933.

More information:

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in the environment variable handling of conquest, a curses based, real-time, multi-player space warfare game, which could lead a local attacker to gain unauthorised access to the group conquest.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 7.1.1-6woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 7.2-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your conquest package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_sparc.deb

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