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Two buffer overflows have been discovered in purity, a game for nerds and hackers, which is installed setgid games on a Debian system. This problem could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to the group games. A malicious user could alter the highscore of several games. . - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 166-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Debian -- Security Information Martin Schulze September 13th, 2002 Debian -- Debian security FAQ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : purity Vulnerability : buffer overflows Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no Two buffer overflows have been discovered in purity, a game for nerds and hackers, which is installed setgid games on a Debian system. This problem could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to the group games. A malicious user could alter the highscore of several games. This problem has been fixed in version 1-14.2 for the current stable distribution (woody), in version 1-9.1 for the old stable distribution (potato) and in version 1-16 for the unstable distribution (sid). We recommend that you upgrade your purity packages. 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 2.2 alias potato - --------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 513 a7a4276a6c694131a5b3bd58703c8c05 Size/MD5 checksum: 5147 db47d2d1f51b5f8c97bcb93974b7b5cf Size/MD5 checksum: 22249 19cbbd136a94aae3d175d8ccc963368d Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 29176 f69989e76361e30813eb233aa500b9c6 ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 27762 169dce544dcab575cc126800eeabb6ce Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 27404 6eb60f91f4cd3730bef018115268c568 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 26934 d1337244388c4b5a183b379e34b37fd1 PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 27760 140ce3d691acc98c27dd6851972db0e9 Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 29952 cb2b48e0465b48b89b220feb30818113 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 550 8e669427422857640b0531e3566706f9 Size/MD5 checksum: 6171 6901ba40ea0938bab43a893e4f75da8a Size/MD5 checksum: 22249 19cbbd136a94aae3d175d8ccc963368d Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 28890 ecb67c79c8047cc631cf63d6fcd93996 ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 27434 6bb8ed0579e96fcff971086d750937ce Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 26906 7ec62b9371253879b93fe6db0ef75945 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 30694 7c26d3db982acf14a2e8133cf204e164 HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 29234 ceb6569248e96d1fd415de15f8f26370 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 26560 4385599f2f16238c4b2628c9a8fc54cc Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 27798 e6b360203cd31c13f19d5bc257684f64 Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 27756 12bb21c88be3011bfd50045a73361255 PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 27306 c782697984b5e8ae83ed16c594d80437 IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 27624 c370933a2db896857c5fa3bb86a2a2db Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 29980 e48dcb304202e2e29634bd51dbd307a3 Thesefiles 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 . Unauthorized access via buffer overflow in transparency poses a threat to leaderboard standings; urgent fix needed.. Purity Game Fix, Debian Security Advisory, Buffer Overflow Exploit. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 13, 2002
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