Debian: mah-jong Denial of service vulnerability
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 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 - -------------------- 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: 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. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb https://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Package info: `apt-cache show' and https://packages.debian.org/