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Debian Security Advisory DSA 350-1 (falconseye)

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

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to falconseye announced via advisory DSA 350-1.

Insight

Insight

The falconseye package is vulnerable to a buffer overflow exploited via a long '-s' command line option. This vulnerability could be used by an attacker to gain gid 'games' on a system where falconseye is installed. Note that falconseye does not contain the file permission error CVE-2003-0359 which affected some other nethack packages. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.3-7woody3. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.3-9. We recommend that you update your falconseye package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20350-1

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