Debian Security Advisory
DSA-372-1 netris -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 16 Aug 2003
- Affected Packages:
- netris
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 8400.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0685. - More information:
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Shaun Colley discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in netris, a network version of a popular puzzle game. A netris client connecting to an untrusted netris server could be sent an unusually long data packet, which would be copied into a fixed-length buffer without bounds checking. This vulnerability could be exploited to gain the privileges of the user running netris in client mode, if they connect to a hostile netris server.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5-4woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem is fixed in version 0.52-1.
We recommend that you update your netris package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netris/netris_0.5-4woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.