Debian Security Advisory

DSA-405-1 xsok -- missing privilege release

Date Reported:
30 Dec 2003
Affected Packages:
xsok
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9321.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0949.
More information:

Steve Kemp discovered a problem in xsok, a single player strategy game for X11, related to the Sokoban game, which leads a user to execute arbitrary commands under the GID of games.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.02-9woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.02-11.

We recommend that you upgrade your xsok package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xsok/xsok_1.02-9woody2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xsok/xsok_1.02-9woody2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xsok/xsok_1.02.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xsok/xsok_1.02-9woody2_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xsok/xsok_1.02-9woody2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xsok/xsok_1.02-9woody2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xsok/xsok_1.02-9woody2_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xsok/xsok_1.02-9woody2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xsok/xsok_1.02-9woody2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xsok/xsok_1.02-9woody2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xsok/xsok_1.02-9woody2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xsok/xsok_1.02-9woody2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xsok/xsok_1.02-9woody2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xsok/xsok_1.02-9woody2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.