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Debian Security Advisory DSA 369-1 (zblast)

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 zblast announced via advisory DSA 369-1.

Insight

Insight

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in zblast-svgalib, when saving the high score file. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to gain gid 'games', if they can achieve a high score. For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2pre-5woody2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem is fixed in version 1.2.1-7. We recommend that you update your zblast package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20369-1

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