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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1102-1 (pinball)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.6

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to pinball announced via advisory DSA 1102-1. 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 dropping privileges. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain this package.

Solution

Solution

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. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201102-1

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