Debian Security Advisory
DSA-997-1 bomberclone -- buffer overflows
- Date Reported:
- 13 Mar 2006
- Affected Packages:
- bomberclone
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 16697.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0460. - More information:
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Stefan Cornelius of Gentoo Security discovered that bomberclone, a free Bomberman-like game, crashes when receiving overly long error packets, which may also allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain bomberclone packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.11.5-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.11.6.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your bomberclone package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone-data_0.11.5-1sarge1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.