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Debian: DSA 322-1 Critical: Fix for Typespeed Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey June 17, 2003
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Debian fixes a critical buffer overflow in typespeed, allowing remote code execution. Update recommended immediately.
The network code contains a buffer overflow which could allow a remote attacker toexecute arbitrary code under the privileges of the user invoking typespeed, in addition to gid gam...

Summary

typespeed is a game which challenges the player to type words
correctly and quickly. It contains a network play mode which allows
players on different systems to play competitively. The network code
contains a buffer overflow which could allow a remote attacker to
execute arbitrary code under the privileges of the user invoking
typespeed, in addition to gid games.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.1-2.2.

For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed
in version 0.4.0-5.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your typespeed 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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Package: typespeed

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