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Debian GNU/Linux Advisory: falconeyeJul 15, 2003, 14:29 (0 Talkback[s])
The falconseye package is vulnerable to a buffer overflow exploited via a long '-s' command line option. This vulnerability could be used by an attacker to gain gid 'games' on a system where falconseye is installed. Note that falconseye does not contain the file permission error CAN-2003-0359 which affected some other nethack packages. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.3-7woody3. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.3-9. We recommend that you update your falconseye package. Upgrade Instructions wget url will fetch the file for you 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 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3.dsc Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye-data_1.9.3-7woody3_all.deb Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_alpha.deb ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_arm.deb Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_i386.deb Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_ia64.deb HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_hppa.deb Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_m68k.deb Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_mips.deb Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_mipsel.deb PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_powerpc.deb IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_s390.deb Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_sparc.deb You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. 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>; 0 Talkback[s]
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