Debian Security Advisory
DSA-503-1 mah-jong -- missing argument check
- Date Reported:
- 13 May 2004
- Affected Packages:
- mah-jong
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10343.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0458. - More information:
-
A problem has been discovered in mah-jong, a variant of the original Mah-Jong game, that can be utilised to crash the game server after dereferencing a NULL pointer. This bug be exploited by any client that connects to the mah-jong server.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mah-jong package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.