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Debian: DSA 452-1 Serious: Zoom Chat Remote Exploit Warning Notice

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Calendar Grey February 27, 2004
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Revise xboing to mitigate severe buffer overflow vulnerabilities outlined in Debian DSA 452-1 security advisory. Ensure all patches are applied to enhance system resilience.
can be exploited by a local attacker to gain gid "games".

Summary

Steve Kemp discovered a number of buffer overflow vulnerabilities in
xboing, a game, which could be exploited by a local attacker to gain
gid "games".

For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been
fixed in version 2.4-26woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.4-26.1.

We recommend that you update your xboing 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:


Size/MD5 checksum: 580 f9ef94d37b5db34cf867d172529ad325

Size/MD5 checksum: 13200 3627d000f33d4...

Read the Full Advisory

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Package: xboing

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