Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1317-1 tinymux -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
23 Jun 2007
Affected Packages:
tinymux
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-1655.
More information:

duskwave discovered that tinymux, a text-based multi-user virtual world server, performs insufficient boundary checks when working with user-supplied data, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.3.31-1etch1.

We recommend that you upgrade your tinymux package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinymux/tinymux_2.4.3.31-1etch1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinymux/tinymux_2.4.3.31.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinymux/tinymux_2.4.3.31-1etch1.dsc
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinymux/tinymux_2.4.3.31-1etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinymux/tinymux_2.4.3.31-1etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinymux/tinymux_2.4.3.31-1etch1_arm.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinymux/tinymux_2.4.3.31-1etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinymux/tinymux_2.4.3.31-1etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinymux/tinymux_2.4.3.31-1etch1_ia64.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinymux/tinymux_2.4.3.31-1etch1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinymux/tinymux_2.4.3.31-1etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinymux/tinymux_2.4.3.31-1etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinymux/tinymux_2.4.3.31-1etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinymux/tinymux_2.4.3.31-1etch1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.