Debian 3.0 DSA-369-1 Critical: Buffer Overflow in Zblast Exploit

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

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