Debian: xsok Missing privilege release
Summary
Package : xsok
Vulnerability : missing privelige release
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2003-0949
Steve Kemp discovered a problem in xsok, a single player strategy game
for X11, related to the Sokoban game, which leads a user to execute
arbitrary commands under the GID of games.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.02-9woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.02-11.
We recommend that you upgrade your xsok 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.
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