Debian: mah-jong Denial of service vulnerability
Summary
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
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 579 fbaaaa02b4da5b54980a857978953ad9
Size/MD5 checksum: 24223 d80c110b7e32860173816378c9a0b668
Size/MD5 checksum: 259474 21cc99ddb9ae91cbe02b2119586f8860
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 311528 2c8c14d83e1488d49332ad1617a92d68
ARM architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 272438 7be6ba070c69a00507c6014ef4246cc6
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 250086 a7ebbe382d8eb1328901092a6b2b3352
Intel IA-64 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 380046 2ca54902cb7e346c75472032c0d4d2f7
HP Precision architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 286928 567894a21a4c911ec9b8287fd089c474
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 234534 3e57a18a0a4081b300259e9dd82ab48b
Big endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 262024 65c7e3c93be2bd4ed8a8785d281828f3
Little endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 261836 523bf9927fd506d7d7eaeeb9a80ed8ba
PowerPC architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 271728 ac75e854e4d5b3dc8836d06a433f5d8f
IBM S/390 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 246212 0560d3f71a4e98578d4dcf14811605a3
Sun Sparc architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 269534 b3caab927da9daf5c01e81b3e70a7437
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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