Debian alert: New marbles packages fix buffer overflow

Posted by dave on Sep 25, 2003 9:05 PM EDT
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Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in marbles, when processing the HOME environment variable. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to gain gid 'games'.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 390-1                     security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Matt Zimmerman
September 26th, 2003                        http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : marbles
Vulnerability  : buffer overflow
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids        : CAN-2003-0830

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in marbles, when processing
the HOME environment variable.  This vulnerability could be exploited
by a local user to gain gid 'games'.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed
in version 1.0.2-1woody1.

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

We recommend that you update your marbles package.

Upgrade Instructions
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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
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      639 245bdf77bd4bd8486c6b5f3959cb60b3
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:     6555 e961bb7403e459ce364b0687d0820269
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:   798960 33d85d3b201eadf2da75522fef7a9f18

  Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_alpha.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   810666 2cc6147dd9f7bb2bda5cbf028a5a6140

  ARM architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_arm.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   795756 5e376a3686f47c3e9f807dd2d561bbc8

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_i386.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   791310 9d24587b577fd87dad5692e8047a410a

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_ia64.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   825452 9612573fe33cf864ef555b2768f9482c

  HP Precision architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_hppa.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   802686 1c19d173e8099b2dac59e3a8a7811c99

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_m68k.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   790122 2764f5703c05c5a8aa08da904b35e3eb

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_mips.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   799582 769ecd91c03047b7dd49f7de01eb211e

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_mipsel.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   799440 c608d603b5bb7a97f178c3270536d01d

  PowerPC architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   795932 f70c6781b0c606014ff699e1afedae94

  IBM S/390 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_s390.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   793942 6e666436a5fdc933c7a73f96e82468bb

  Sun Sparc architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_sparc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   794888 a5e518028cf16dcfcdfdef2f4ad90856

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

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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