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Debian: DSA-1102-1 Moderate: Pinball Design Issue Threat

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Calendar Grey June 26, 2006
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Uncover patches for the pinball software in Debian addressing vulnerabilities that could lead to privilege escalation due to underlying design issues.
Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that pinball, a pinball simulator, can be tricked into loading level plugins from user-controlled directories without d...

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.3.1-3sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.3.1-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your pinball 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 at the end of this advisory:

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

Size/MD5 checksum: 811 17ac5604e5bb7e13b938d84012c6ea7c
Size/MD5 checksum: 320626 5473ae87027018899b08f12c34ddd538
Size/MD5 checksum: 6082982 f28e8f49e0db8e9491e4d9f0c13c36c6

Architecture independent components:

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