Debian: falconseye buffer overflow vulnerability
Summary
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
CAN-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.
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
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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