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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2003.0450 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA-334-1
New xgalaga packages fix buffer overflow
30 June 2003
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: xgalaga
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
Linux
Impact: Increased Privileges
Access Required: Existing Account
CVE Names: CAN-2003-0454
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 334-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
June 28th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : xgalaga
Vulnerability : buffer overflows
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids : CAN-2003-0454
Steve Kemp discovered several buffer overflows in xgalaga, a game,
which can be triggered by a long HOME environment variable. This
vulnerability could be exploited by a local attacker to gain gid
'games'.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.34-19woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem is fixed in version
2.0.34-22.
We recommend that you update your xgalaga 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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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xgalaga/xgalaga_2.0.34-19woody1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 576 746a62bbc0e1fe3e402ebf0baf7d409f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xgalaga/xgalaga_2.0.34-19woody1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 33875 cca65c5c025fe964e574ed286bf1a48e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xgalaga/xgalaga_2.0.34.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 314189 9f7ee685e9c4741b5f0edc3f91df9510
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xgalaga/xgalaga_2.0.34-19woody1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 208352 2ee48a6c41ed2912f9c04b7e5bab0b2f
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xgalaga/xgalaga_2.0.34-19woody1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 198666 3bba4b2486e3c48f6d116f55b521180d
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xgalaga/xgalaga_2.0.34-19woody1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 191654 4fd57335930cb976e93b48993fc159e0
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xgalaga/xgalaga_2.0.34-19woody1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 225428 0030ed8957fda5d7787415deceb05b41
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xgalaga/xgalaga_2.0.34-19woody1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 211990 8877bd894336e2b4eeae5e90bb76bae9
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xgalaga/xgalaga_2.0.34-19woody1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 192832 5edfdbf20d05364609abd78121e86839
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xgalaga/xgalaga_2.0.34-19woody1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 205460 928639b6561e32e4e8f7820dbae789ed
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xgalaga/xgalaga_2.0.34-19woody1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 202588 27e65f0489cee88c3b2af603764ae66f
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xgalaga/xgalaga_2.0.34-19woody1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 199984 f0baf858ea5f44368fe14fceb581862f
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xgalaga/xgalaga_2.0.34-19woody1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 200876 a816f3a90931f141ed0d0450d77feb44
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xgalaga/xgalaga_2.0.34-19woody1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 205648 ce754d6e1665737c7160a14ca47d21f8
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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