DSA-1180-1 bomberclone -- programming error

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2006-4005   CVE-2006-4006  

Luigi Auriemma discovered two security related bugs in bomberclone, a free Bomberman clone. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2006-4005 The program copies remotely provided data unchecked which could lead to a denial of service via an application crash. CVE-2006-4006 Bomberclone uses remotely provided data as length argument which can lead to the disclosure of private information. For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.11.5-1sarge2. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.11.7-0.1. We recommend that you upgrade your bomberclone package.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1180-1 bomberclone -- programming error

Date Reported:
19 Sep 2006
Affected Packages:
bomberclone
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 382082.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-4005, CVE-2006-4006.
More information:

Luigi Auriemma discovered two security related bugs in bomberclone, a free Bomberman clone. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CVE-2006-4005

    The program copies remotely provided data unchecked which could lead to a denial of service via an application crash.

  • CVE-2006-4006

    Bomberclone uses remotely provided data as length argument which can lead to the disclosure of private information.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.11.5-1sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.11.7-0.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your bomberclone package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone-data_0.11.5-1sarge2_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_arm.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_sparc.deb

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