Debian Security Advisory
DSA-350-1 falconseye -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 15 Jul 2003
- Affected Packages:
- falconseye
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 6806.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0358. - More information:
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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.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye-data_1.9.3-7woody3_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-7woody3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.