Debian Security Advisory
DSA-929-1 petris -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 09 Jan 2006
- Affected Packages:
- petris
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3540.
- More information:
-
Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered a buffer overflow in petris, a clone of the Tetris game, which may be exploited to execute arbitrary code with group games privileges.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain the petris package.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-4sarge0.
For the unstable distribution the package will be updated shortly.
We recommend that you upgrade your petris package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1-4sarge0.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1-4sarge0.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1-4sarge0.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1-4sarge0_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1-4sarge0_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1-4sarge0_arm.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1-4sarge0_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1-4sarge0_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1-4sarge0_ia64.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1-4sarge0_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1-4sarge0_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1-4sarge0_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1-4sarge0_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1-4sarge0_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/petris/petris_1.0.1-4sarge0_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.