DSA-503-1 mah-jong -- missing argument check

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-503-1 mah-jong -- missing argument check

Date Reported:

13 May 2004

Affected Packages:

mah-jong

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10343.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0458.

More information:

A problem has been discovered in mah-jong, a variant of the original Mah-Jong game, that can be utilised to crash the game server after dereferencing a NULL pointer. This bug be exploited by any client that connects to the mah-jong server.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mah-jong package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_sparc.deb

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