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The program applies an unchecked-length environment variable into a fixed size buffer.. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 432-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Debian -- Security Information Martin Schulze February 3rd, 2004 Debian -- Debian security FAQ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : crawl Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0103 Steve Kemp from the GNU/Linux audit project discovered a problem in crawl, another console based dungeon exploration game, in the vein of nethack and rogue. The program uses several environment variables as inputs but doesn't apply a size check before copying one of them into a fixed size buffer. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.0beta23-2woody1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.0beta26-4. We recommend that you upgrade your crawl 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: 615 31b653a8f4676721dce6fd4cd0be466a Size/MD5 checksum: 6917 b6265bdb9920f235974e956aee8ff3d8 Size/MD5 checksum: 1047863 6b988caff871f0df1c8f3cc907f2fce6 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 846352 cd6c9b2e3f956ffb90044d3f612a0541 ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 612148 1d40c12a7687b8c2fbac1ea96df77904 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 597308 23caee0901a3bb82a339865317bacec4 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 872990 650870a8100d6940786e51c8637bf620 HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 710630 3901b6834ce7bf7a207a90a2b7dc1d06 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 582394 82175ccafa67ddf21c2ecbf76cc0bffd Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 682518 6a0e340b338b97ee9a560e62b555d400 Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 680054 c943ac5a2b8f40e937911bcdc41b7f7b PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 627012 6f582d4800a2f8a43aaed89bd9ee8d55 IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 595210 fc1e552be3a5e6f4a981feee849a672f Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 618752 db57f6fdc7c73721739027dd46fc1515 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: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Package info: `apt-cache show ' and https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages . Critical advisory addresses buffer overflow in crawl package, requiring immediate update for Debian users.. Buffer Overflow,Crawl Package Update,Debian Security Advisory. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 03, 2004
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