Debian: luxman local root exploit
Summary
iDEFENSE reported about a vulnerability in LuxMan, a maze game for
GNU/Linux, similar to the PacMan arcade game. When successfully
exploited it a local attacker with read write access to the Memory,
leading to a local root compromise in many ways, examples of which
include scanning the file for fragments of the master password file
and modifying kernel memory to re-map system calls.
This problem has been fixed in version 0.41-17.1 the current stable
distribution (woody) and in version 0.41-19 for the unstable
distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) is not
affected since it doesn't contain a luxman package
We recommend that you upgrade your luxman package immediately.
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
This package is only available for the IA-32 architecture.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 570 6f07d15342abd605028d3cfde3dd1e6a
Size/MD5 checksum: 6955 0ede91f130be23bd67383f47e6b51ccb
Size/MD5 checksum: 268279 aa389327578e2d65f3f5035193e407cb
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 290680 e9aa37d421068e828307ef5c816ad72d
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show
