Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1036-1 bsdgames -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

17 Apr 2006

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 360989.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 17401.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-1744.

More information:

A buffer overflow problem has been discovered in sail, a game contained in the bsdgames package, a collection of classic textual Unix games, which could lead to games group privilege escalation.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.13-7woody0.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.17-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.17-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your bsdgames package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.13-7woody0.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.13-7woody0.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.13.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.13-7woody0_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.13-7woody0_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.13-7woody0_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.13-7woody0_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.13-7woody0_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.13-7woody0_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.13-7woody0_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.13-7woody0_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.13-7woody0_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.13-7woody0_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.13-7woody0_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17-1sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17-1sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17-1sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17-1sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17-1sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17-1sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17-1sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17-1sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17-1sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17-1sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17-1sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17-1sarge1_sparc.deb

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