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Debian 3.1: DSA-929-1 Critical: Petris Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2006
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An integer overflow vulnerability in qubix can be leveraged for unauthorized command execution; patch advised for Ubuntu users.
Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered a buffer overflow in petris, a clone of the Tetris game, which may be exploited to execute arbitary code with group g...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.1-4sarge0.

For the unstable distribution the package will be updated shortly.

We recommend that you upgrade your petris 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 3.1 alias sarge

petris_1.0.1-4sarge0.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 4255 f043952580a76a670090f5e10456cac0
petris_1.0.1-4sarge0.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 597 a8f7e7dc2da54370faf95307432ea057
petris_1.0.1.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 11400 36ce4098c5305606ebbb66641eb9cea3

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