Executive Summary

Summary
Title New purity packages fix potential buffer overflows
Informations
Name DSA-166 First vendor Publication 2002-09-13
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2002-09-13
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Two buffer overflows have been discovered in purity, a game for nerds and hackers, which is installed setgid games on a Debian system. This problem could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to the group games. A malicious user could alter the highscore of several games.

This problem has been fixed in version 1-14.2 for the current stable distribution (woody), in version 1-9.1 for the old stable distribution (potato) and in version 1-16 for the unstable distribution (sid).

We recommend that you upgrade your purity packages.

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 2.2 alias potato

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-166

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 166-1 (purity)
File : nvt/deb_166_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
8871 purity Multiple Unspecified Local Overflows

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2004-09-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-166.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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