Debian Security Advisory
DSA-398-1 conquest -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 10 Nov 2003
- Affected Packages:
- conquest
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 8996.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0933. - More information:
-
Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in the environment variable handling of conquest, a curses based, real-time, multi-player space warfare game, which could lead a local attacker to gain unauthorised access to the group conquest.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 7.1.1-6woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 7.2-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your conquest package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/conquest/conquest_7.1.1-6woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.