Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | New typespeed packages fix buffer overflow |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-217 | First vendor Publication | 2002-12-27 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2002-12-27 |
| 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:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 4.6 | Attack Range | Local |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 3.9 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| A problem has been discovered in the typespeed, a game that lets you measure your typematic speed. By overflowing a buffer a local attacker could execute arbitrary commands under the group id games. For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.1-2.1. For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.0-5.1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.2-2. We recommend that you upgrade your typespeed package. 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-217 |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 2 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 217-1 (typespeed) File : nvt/deb_217_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 10357 | Typespeed Command Line Argument Overflow |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2004-09-29 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-217.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 11:29:53 |
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