Debian alert: New lbreakout2 packages fix buffer overflow

Posted by dave on Feb 21, 2004 2:19 PM EDT
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During an audit, Ulf Harnhammar discovered a vulnerability in lbreakout2, a game, where proper bounds checking was not performed on environment variables. This bug could be exploited by a local attacker to gain the privileges of group "games".

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- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 445-1 [e-mail:security@debian.org] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman February 21st, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Package : lbreakout2 Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2004-0158

During an audit, Ulf Harnhammar discovered a vulnerability in lbreakout2, a game, where proper bounds checking was not performed on environment variables. This bug could be exploited by a local attacker to gain the privileges of group "games".

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.2-1woody1.

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

We recommend that you update your lbreakout2 package.

Upgrade Instructions - --------------------

wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:

apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 638 c2e605263d4d0ca08218e667d1299efa http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 5688 692094c7a0705bfd5f5595a6ce750977 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 1215427 d5f0ef9371d7165723aa35a3e325a3ba

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1157816 7ef7a54e5b3803ca672b57731cb95f9a

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1126502 28bb2c780e0907c9d7f9862f459002f8

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1112732 80fb5d46320ff2b8fae374a61b8ae5ba

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1182786 a899fab79519604d591c4a330783db64

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1136182 fa206bfef247e4a2feb48234f160bf49

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1110628 9bf1761c57b1fe866e32837cbcf99e71

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1142782 d9d2dd4237685a9eec94e7c310e172db

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1129844 f7bd1188ba6485798eb22e195ee938dd

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1121760 5c49bbbfd9f582151bf3cb8b8a2e213a

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1124704 95231dbcc444a3f2e65603029e1f5e2c

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision.

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