Debian: mah-jong Denial of service vulnerability

A problem has been discovered in mah-jong that can be utilised to crash the game server after dereferencing a NULL pointer.

Debian Security Advisory DSA 503-1                     This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
https://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
May 13th, 2004                           https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : mah-jong
Vulnerability  : missing argument check
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CAN-2004-0458

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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  Source archives:

     https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      579 fbaaaa02b4da5b54980a857978953ad9
     https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:    24223 d80c110b7e32860173816378c9a0b668
     https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:   259474 21cc99ddb9ae91cbe02b2119586f8860

  Alpha architecture:

     https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_alpha.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   311528 2c8c14d83e1488d49332ad1617a92d68

  ARM architecture:

     https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_arm.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   272438 7be6ba070c69a00507c6014ef4246cc6

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

     https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_i386.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   250086 a7ebbe382d8eb1328901092a6b2b3352

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

     https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_ia64.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   380046 2ca54902cb7e346c75472032c0d4d2f7

  HP Precision architecture:

     https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_hppa.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   286928 567894a21a4c911ec9b8287fd089c474

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

     https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_m68k.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   234534 3e57a18a0a4081b300259e9dd82ab48b

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

     https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_mips.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   262024 65c7e3c93be2bd4ed8a8785d281828f3

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

     https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_mipsel.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   261836 523bf9927fd506d7d7eaeeb9a80ed8ba

  PowerPC architecture:

     https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   271728 ac75e854e4d5b3dc8836d06a433f5d8f

  IBM S/390 architecture:

     https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_s390.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   246212 0560d3f71a4e98578d4dcf14811605a3

  Sun Sparc architecture:

     https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_sparc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   269534 b3caab927da9daf5c01e81b3e70a7437


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

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