Debian: New typespeed packages fix arbitrary group games code execution
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 684-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 16th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : typespeed Vulnerability : format string Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0105 Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a problem in typespeed, a touch-typist trainer disguised as game. This could lead to a local attacker executing arbitrary code as group games. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.1-2.3. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your typespeed package. Upgrade Instructions - --------------------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: 575 70ebea5828757f0c963a27e2d87d8515 Size/MD5 checksum: 8457 78235ab890462e83f9c2779d0882e329 Size/MD5 checksum: 35492 0af9809cd20bd9010732ced930090f32 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 44486 81d20c78d05fd028c5d40a77fc09923d ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 39164 5eedf595ec3b9714e1c7de731f34e5a1 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 38852 96e8651b24c5cbc48bfb21ed4e8196d4 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 50122 d422760c9350d78d2b30a933a2b25df0 HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 42064 0123e88f6b81d9d95f43d06a73e015b6 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 37570 8052b9b8e45dbba90b946eb76d8625fa Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 41224 897c4771e1cd215e178cb4cc922ede0a Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 41250 0972a4ec92ec47bb4cd81e10a9255bee PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 41408 0e3c124090e9f410fe82751214c68cdd IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 38994 0b9306e15ab0afa697ad9aca5fd799e7 Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 43140 e7f9fbb0dc02dadf975a4f22a0fadc94 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org