Debian Security Advisory
DSA-166-1 purity -- buffer overflows
- Date Reported:
- 13 Sep 2002
- Affected Packages:
- purity
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-1124.
- More information:
-
Two buffer overflows have been discovered in purity, a game for nerds and hackers, which is installed setgid games on a Debian system. This problem could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to the group games. A malicious user could alter the highscore of several games.
This problem has been fixed in version 1-14.2 for the current stable distribution (woody), in version 1-9.1 for the old stable distribution (potato) and in version 1-16 for the unstable distribution (sid).
We recommend that you upgrade your purity packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-9.1_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_ia64.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/purity/purity_1-14.2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.