DSA-997-1 bomberclone -- buffer overflows

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-997-1 bomberclone -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:

13 Mar 2006

Affected Packages:

bomberclone

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 16697.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0460.

More information:

Stefan Cornelius of Gentoo Security discovered that bomberclone, a free Bomberman-like game, crashes when receiving overly long error packets, which may also allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain bomberclone packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.11.5-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.11.6.2-1.

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_0.11.5-1sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1.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_0.11.5-1sarge1_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_sparc.deb

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