Debian Security Advisory DSA 382-1: Medium Risk Netris Buffer Overflow

Shaun Colley discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in netris, a
network version of a popular puzzle game. A netris client connecting
to an untrusted netris server could be sent an unusually long data
packet, which would be copied into a fixed-length buffer without
bounds checking. This vulnerability could be exploited to gain the
priviliges of the user running netris in client mode, if they connect
to a hostile netris server.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed
in version 0.5-4woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem is fixed in version
0.52-1.

We recommend that you update your netris 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

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