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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinymux/tinymux_2.4.3.31.orig.tar.gz
- 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.