Debian: New py2play packages fix arbitrary code execution
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 856-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 10th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : py2play Vulnerability : design error Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2875 Debian Bug : 326976 Arc Riley discovered that py2play, a peer-to-peer network game engine, is able to execute arbitrary code received from the p2p game network it is connected to without any security checks. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain py2play packages. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.7-1sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.8-1. We recommend that you upgrade your py2play 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 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 620 af7d893aef3a30d5f4d1213904a4b6bc Size/MD5 checksum: 4279 f67056e4ede259e691e2ebf1af49a148 Size/MD5 checksum: 21426 8cdd904928b6d410b35041206e56a5de Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 16430 2bc3056f9fa5ece5621d2c9b98c0aca6 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
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