There are several buffer overflows in the gtetrinet package as shipped in Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, which could be abused by a malicious server.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-205-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
December 10, 2002
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Package        : gtetrinet
Problem type   : buffer overflow
Debian-specific: no

Steve Kemp and James Antill found several buffer overflows in the
gtetrinet (a multiplayer tetris-like game) package as shipped in
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, which could be abused by a malicious server.

This has been fixed in upstream version 0.4.4 and release
0.4.1-9woody1.1 of the Debian package.

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Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.

  Potato did not contain a gtetrinet package.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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  Woody was released for alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel,
  powerpc, s390 and sparc.

  Source archives:

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1-9woody1.1.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:     1317 55778a1c25bccb12cbc90c00c15108e9
     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1-9woody1.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      641 9cc2619b4aedfd4a8a4efaf537e25130
     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1-9woody1.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:    19126 ab141cfe86b7c018aec366ac909863e6
     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1-9woody1.1.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:    19225 ecacb91e1bc4db55fb47c0f0ca281e4f
     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:   144162 40c3808a683fcce0bae5c341a7245fa6

  alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1-9woody1.1_alpha.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   123156 85348df49da23fce6b7ea384328d35ec

  arm architecture (ARM)

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1-9woody1.1_arm.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   110980 00cf7cd6649a1f8dc9b59fac11b855b4

  hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1-9woody1.1_hppa.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   119402 4714cf8d32c80a64d556323dc4703581

  i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1-9woody1.1_i386.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   107954 5303aa820794aabb10e59ff06b837472

  ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1-9woody1.1_ia64.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   135864 f41023f7f365eb3dcf853eb6345b1076

  m68k architecture (Motorola Mc680x0)

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1-9woody1.1_m68k.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   108370 a177457fc6ebcf4d83d612b299706005

  mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1-9woody1.1_mips.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   114322 5d6032d9c88b4b820c9bde4a69ad9674

  mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1-9woody1.1_mipsel.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   111968 f45a1a6b130ae372328ee0a047eed3fe

  powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1-9woody1.1_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   114102 0b9840c44188e4262f65002a9b282b45

  s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1-9woody1.1_s390.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   113302 f5e85f1d430094a33c1b74572b9b5342

  sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gtetrinet/gtetrinet_0.4.1-9woody1.1_sparc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   113772 ccd2017e251db41f6931f866246d61a6
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