Debian: marbles Buffer overflow vulnerability
Summary
Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in marbles, when processing
the HOME environment variable. This vulnerability could be exploited
by a local user to gain gid 'games'.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed
in version 1.0.2-1woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your marbles package.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 639 245bdf77bd4bd8486c6b5f3959cb60b3
Size/MD5 checksum: 6555 e961bb7403e459ce364b0687d0820269
Size/MD5 checksum: 798960 33d85d3b201eadf2da75522fef7a9f18
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 810666 2cc6147dd9f7bb2bda5cbf028a5a6140
ARM architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 795756 5e376a3686f47c3e9f807dd2d561bbc8
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 791310 9d24587b577fd87dad5692e8047a410a
Intel IA-64 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 825452 9612573fe33cf864ef555b2768f9482c
HP Precision architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 802686 1c19d173e8099b2dac59e3a8a7811c99
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 790122 2764f5703c05c5a8aa08da904b35e3eb
Big endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 799582 769ecd91c03047b7dd49f7de01eb211e
Little endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 799440 c608d603b5bb7a97f178c3270536d01d
PowerPC architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 795932 f70c6781b0c606014ff699e1afedae94
IBM S/390 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 793942 6e666436a5fdc933c7a73f96e82468bb
Sun Sparc architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 794888 a5e518028cf16dcfcdfdef2f4ad90856
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show
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