Debian alert: New crawl packages fix potential local games exploit

Posted by dave on Feb 3, 2004 7:42 AM EDT
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"Steve Kemp from the GNU/Linux audit project discovered a problem in crawl, another console based dungeon exploration game, in the vein of nethack and rogue. The program uses several environment variables as inputs but doesn't apply a size check before copying one of them into a fixed size buffer."

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- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 432-1 [E-mail:security@debian.org] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 3rd, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Package : crawl Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0103

Steve Kemp from the GNU/Linux audit project discovered a problem in crawl, another console based dungeon exploration game, in the vein of nethack and rogue. The program uses several environment variables as inputs but doesn't apply a size check before copying one of them into a fixed size buffer.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.0beta23-2woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.0beta26-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your crawl 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/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 615 31b653a8f4676721dce6fd4cd0be466a http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 6917 b6265bdb9920f235974e956aee8ff3d8 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 1047863 6b988caff871f0df1c8f3cc907f2fce6

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 846352 cd6c9b2e3f956ffb90044d3f612a0541

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 612148 1d40c12a7687b8c2fbac1ea96df77904

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 597308 23caee0901a3bb82a339865317bacec4

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 872990 650870a8100d6940786e51c8637bf620

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 710630 3901b6834ce7bf7a207a90a2b7dc1d06

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 582394 82175ccafa67ddf21c2ecbf76cc0bffd

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 682518 6a0e340b338b97ee9a560e62b555d400

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 680054 c943ac5a2b8f40e937911bcdc41b7f7b

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 627012 6f582d4800a2f8a43aaed89bd9ee8d55

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 595210 fc1e552be3a5e6f4a981feee849a672f

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 618752 db57f6fdc7c73721739027dd46fc1515

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

- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: [E-mail:debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org] Package info: 'apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/

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