Debian: crawl Buffer overflow vulnerability
Summary
Steve Kemp from the GNU/Linux audit project discovered a problem in
crawl, another console based dungeon exploration game, in the vein of
nethack and rogue. The program uses several environment variables as
inputs but doesn't apply a size check before copying one of them into
a fixed size buffer.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.0beta23-2woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.0beta26-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your crawl 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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