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Debian Security Advisory DSA 398-1 security (at) debian (dot) org [email concealed]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
November 10th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : conquest
Vulnerability : buffer overlow
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id : CAN-2003-0933

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in the environment variable
handling of conquest, a curses based, real-time, multi-player space
warfare game, which could lead a local attacker to gain unauthorised
access to the group conquest.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 7.1.1-6woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 7.2-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your conquest 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/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6
woody1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 606 89c7be20d34d9176d18eb51f28c7806e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6
woody1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 32749 27d90e0b6719579833cb064a2b70dcdb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1.o
rig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 255029 c02891f6c0c4b8c73a82c1c8185e3025

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6
woody1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 366064 b6d212bd4a4880488195d47002e66981

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6
woody1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 227160 42399fea69c68ce63890e63b1b6c00ef

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6
woody1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 228846 f03fd6daf700e6f3bf8def68eff30d72

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6
woody1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 402110 ffbff5ca106ee2d41b28aa15e61f74ce

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6
woody1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 260870 1348a3b191e52a84302ee6304654007f

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6
woody1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 215282 02fc3e118af479c039dde99cf400dac7

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6
woody1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 277570 a538cc763893262f56dbcc247d63f75f

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6
woody1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 275324 ca3d4e2831592b7a0a9b302845895699

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6
woody1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 267460 6c14f9505b9a70a26b251086fb0a4283

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6
woody1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 241432 f427b9ce0febfe66370b773c84e30a2e

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6
woody1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 302096 50f45c32dc171f547ade2d0439e3ebe0

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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