Debian Security Advisory
DSA-432-1 crawl -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 03 Feb 2004
- Affected Packages:
- crawl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9566.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0103. - More information:
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Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a problem in crawl, another console based dungeon exploration game, in the vein of nethack and rogue. The program uses several environment variables as inputs but doesn't apply a size check before copying one of them into a fixed size buffer.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.0beta23-2woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.0beta26-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your crawl package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.