Debian alert: New purity packages fix potential buffer overflows

Posted by dave on Sep 13, 2002 6:10 AM EDT
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Two buffer overflows have been discovered in purity, a game for nerds and hackers, which is installed setgid games on a Debian system. This problem could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to the group games. A malicious user could alter the highscore of several games.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 166-1                     security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
September 13th, 2002                    http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : purity
Vulnerability  : buffer overflows
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: no

Two buffer overflows have been discovered in purity, a game for nerds
and hackers, which is installed setgid games on a Debian system.  This
problem could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to the group
games.  A malicious user could alter the highscore of several games.

This problem has been fixed in version 1-14.2 for the current stable
distribution (woody), in version 1-9.1 for the old stable distribution
(potato) and in version 1-16 for the unstable distribution (sid).

We recommend that you upgrade your purity packages.

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 2.2 alias potato
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      513 a7a4276a6c694131a5b3bd58703c8c05
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:     5147 db47d2d1f51b5f8c97bcb93974b7b5cf
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:    22249 19cbbd136a94aae3d175d8ccc963368d

  Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1_alpha.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    29176 f69989e76361e30813eb233aa500b9c6

  ARM architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1_arm.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    27762 169dce544dcab575cc126800eeabb6ce

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1_i386.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    27404 6eb60f91f4cd3730bef018115268c568

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1_m68k.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    26934 d1337244388c4b5a183b379e34b37fd1

  PowerPC architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    27760 140ce3d691acc98c27dd6851972db0e9

  Sun Sparc architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1_sparc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    29952 cb2b48e0465b48b89b220feb30818113


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      550 8e669427422857640b0531e3566706f9
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:     6171 6901ba40ea0938bab43a893e4f75da8a
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:    22249 19cbbd136a94aae3d175d8ccc963368d

  Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_alpha.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    28890 ecb67c79c8047cc631cf63d6fcd93996

  ARM architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_arm.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    27434 6bb8ed0579e96fcff971086d750937ce

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_i386.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    26906 7ec62b9371253879b93fe6db0ef75945

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_ia64.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    30694 7c26d3db982acf14a2e8133cf204e164

  HP Precision architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_hppa.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    29234 ceb6569248e96d1fd415de15f8f26370

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_m68k.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    26560 4385599f2f16238c4b2628c9a8fc54cc

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_mips.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    27798 e6b360203cd31c13f19d5bc257684f64

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_mipsel.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    27756 12bb21c88be3011bfd50045a73361255

  PowerPC architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    27306 c782697984b5e8ae83ed16c594d80437

  IBM S/390 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_s390.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    27624 c370933a2db896857c5fa3bb86a2a2db

  Sun Sparc architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_sparc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    29980 e48dcb304202e2e29634bd51dbd307a3


  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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