Debian: zblast buffer overflow vulnerability
Summary
Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in zblast-svgalib, when saving
the high score file. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local
user to gain gid 'games', if they can achieve a high score.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed
in version 1.2pre-5woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem is fixed in version
1.2.1-7.
We recommend that you update your zblast 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
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: 629 342cf492e3784f3a8f28e1ef05b07eaa
Size/MD5 checksum: 3168 d318fe30cb889504e505552831e201e6
Size/MD5 checksum: 538922 bce4d51eb69682567b737c5eaa91a9b9
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 496918 c062e34ee87694546a79880af612dc00
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 52476 c5d3e1ad4d1836768cd1aa532f7354e6
ARM architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 42714 f66c9d086d1f150f3daa203cb2f9dd49
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 32632 faa3cdf7051a4184e1b68070d43eac95
Size/MD5 checksum: 34932 63302caf4eade00c97be50d29d67d2a7
Intel IA-64 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 57678 50aa16fa917f18b4ca691a3b3959c578
HP Precision architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 43698 07a64c5d21272d3cf76dfced0ea20547
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 32034 d40ee60665f8b363835dba5dd4890725
Big endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 42418 99641d413e7887a9eb4940a3c04442d8
Little endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 42068 3af9a555e17c654a0b434f34a061646e
PowerPC architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 39990 dbbc5ddef8af798e54ff029e21d4334e
IBM S/390 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 40606 34a9bf81352557b8e2c1f1927080fd54
Sun Sparc architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 41932 bdb32572963ab08f1a4951934b31d23b
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show