[SECURITY] [DSA-372-1] New netris packages fix buffer overflow

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 372-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
August 16th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

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Package : netris
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids : CAN-2003-0685

Shaun Colley discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in netris, a
network version of a popular puzzle game. A netris client connecting
to an untrusted netris server could be sent an unusually long data
packet, which would be copied into a fixed-length buffer without
bounds checking. This vulnerability could be exploited to gain the
priviliges of the user running netris in client mode, if they connect
to a hostile netris server.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed
in version 0.5-4woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem is fixed in version
0.52-1.

We recommend that you update your netris 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/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:      557 ddea827207a57825a7f55de3fd89265d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1.diff.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:     6597 dccb0e16492a67e3eb2c39b77c0a709f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5.orig.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:    32737 a30c950fd4e4779a26f856bc7cd1aaff

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    41918 e8c9b914878ad7fdbd8a6b52aa1338e3

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    34106 52f38b272ba899c8fe0c5fd8a2fad457

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    32868 f0a6ae7b857d6236b89b214a8f484094

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_ia64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    49624 1b82ed2df7b66f5b75a74b55d8496eb1

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_hppa.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    38054 222c7bdcc91db0e781a9bcd0f0109c4d

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_m68k.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    32288 573dda83165f30e90bc19f7d505fe505

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_mips.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    39082 8a70d7f21fa7ad7e59a69653ffcf1692

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_mipsel.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    39408 88cfd65309ea4881689d4d032d5a7a35

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_powerpc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    35646 318c4a91574885a5925a55b62f6b02ef

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_s390.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    34712 e5dfb757ba51792a3b9aa51797583231

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_sparc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    41112 7a5216a9796fb4a7de0ef0faf5cc192a

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.

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