Debian DSA 503-1 Critical: Mah-Jong Denial Of Service Remote Exploit

A problem has been discovered in mah-jong, a variant of the original
Mah-Jong game, that can be utilised to crash the game server after
dereferencing a NULL pointer. This bug be exploited by any client
that connects to the mah-jong server.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4-3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mah-jong 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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