Debian Security Advisory
DSA-378-1 mah-jong -- buffer overflows, denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 07 Sep 2003
- Affected Packages:
- mah-jong
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 8557, BugTraq ID 8558.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0705, CVE-2003-0706. - More information:
-
Nicolas Boullis discovered two vulnerabilities in mah-jong, a network-enabled game.
- CAN-2003-0705 (buffer overflow)
This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the mah-jong server.
- CAN-2003-0706 (denial of service)
This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to cause the mah-jong server to enter a tight loop and stop responding to commands.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.4-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.6-2.
We recommend that you update your mah-jong package.
- CAN-2003-0705 (buffer overflow)
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.