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[SECURITY] [DSA-390-1] New marbles packages fix buffer overflow Sep 26 2003 05:05AM
Matt Zimmerman (mdz debian org)

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 390-1 security (at) debian (dot) org [email concealed]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
September 26th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : marbles
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids : CAN-2003-0830

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in marbles, when processing
the HOME environment variable. This vulnerability could be exploited
by a local user to gain gid 'games'.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed
in version 1.0.2-1woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your marbles package.

Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1wo
ody1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 639 245bdf77bd4bd8486c6b5f3959cb60b3
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1wo
ody1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 6555 e961bb7403e459ce364b0687d0820269
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2.ori
g.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 798960 33d85d3b201eadf2da75522fef7a9f18

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1wo
ody1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 810666 2cc6147dd9f7bb2bda5cbf028a5a6140

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1wo
ody1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 795756 5e376a3686f47c3e9f807dd2d561bbc8

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1wo
ody1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 791310 9d24587b577fd87dad5692e8047a410a

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1wo
ody1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 825452 9612573fe33cf864ef555b2768f9482c

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1wo
ody1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 802686 1c19d173e8099b2dac59e3a8a7811c99

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1wo
ody1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 790122 2764f5703c05c5a8aa08da904b35e3eb

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1wo
ody1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 799582 769ecd91c03047b7dd49f7de01eb211e

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1wo
ody1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 799440 c608d603b5bb7a97f178c3270536d01d

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1wo
ody1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 795932 f70c6781b0c606014ff699e1afedae94

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1wo
ody1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 793942 6e666436a5fdc933c7a73f96e82468bb

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/marbles/marbles_1.0.2-1wo
ody1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 794888 a5e518028cf16dcfcdfdef2f4ad90856

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce (at) lists.debian (dot) org [email concealed]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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