Debian Security Advisory

DSA-390-1 marbles -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
26 Sep 2003
Affected Packages:
marbles
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 8710.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0830.
More information:

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in marbles, when processing the HOME environment variable. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to gain gid 'games'.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-1woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your marbles package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1woody1_sparc.deb

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