Debian Security Advisory
DSA-949-1 crawl -- insecure program execution
- Date Reported:
- 20 Jan 2006
- Affected Packages:
- crawl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0045.
- More information:
-
Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered a security related problem in crawl, another console based dungeon exploration game in the vein of nethack and rogue. The program executes commands insecurely when saving or loading games which can allow local attackers to gain group games privileges.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.0beta23-2woody2.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.0beta26-4sarge0.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.0beta26-7.
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_4.0.0beta23-2woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody2.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_4.0.0beta23-2woody2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta23-2woody2_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26-4sarge0.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26-4sarge0.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26-4sarge0.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26-4sarge0_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26-4sarge0_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26-4sarge0_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26-4sarge0_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26-4sarge0_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26-4sarge0_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26-4sarge0_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26-4sarge0_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26-4sarge0_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26-4sarge0_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26-4sarge0_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/crawl/crawl_4.0.0beta26-4sarge0_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.