Debian: DSA 1084-1 Critical: Typespeed Remote Code Execution Issue
debian
May 31, 2006
Niko Tyni discovered a buffer overflow in the processing of network data in typespeed, a game for testing and improving typing speed, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.4-8sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.4-10.
We recommend that you upgrade your typespeed packages.
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 at the end of this advisory:
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
Size/MD5 checksum: 575 dde5c050b1e67ffe4514b9dedce6b7fc
Size/MD5 checksum: 8612 c431a405c883545c348dad82ff0c5128
Size/MD5 checksum: 35492 0af9809cd20bd9010732ced930090f32
Alpha architecture:
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