Gentoo: 230401-16 Important: Severe Nethack Memory Leak Vulnerability
gentoo
February 18, 2003
Overflowing a buffer in nethack may lead to privelige escalation to games uid.
Summary
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Overflowing a buffer in nethack may lead to privelige escalation to games uid.
Read the full advisory at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104489201032144&w=2
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running app-games/nethack upgrade to nethack-3.4.0-r6 as follows:
emerge sync emerge -u nethack emerge clean
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PACKAGE : nethack
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
EXPLOIT : local
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