Debian Security Advisory

DSA-445-1 lbreakout2 -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
21 Feb 2004
Affected Packages:
lbreakout2
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9712.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0158.
More information:

Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a vulnerability in lbreakout2, a game, where proper bounds checking was not performed on environment variables. This bug could be exploited by a local attacker to gain the privileges of group "games".

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.2-1woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your lbreakout2 package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_mips.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lbreakout2/lbreakout2_2.2.2-1woody1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.