Debian Security Advisory
DSA-684-1 typespeed -- format string
- Date Reported:
- 16 Feb 2005
- Affected Packages:
- typespeed
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0105.
- More information:
-
Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a problem in typespeed, a touch-typist trainer disguised as game. This could lead to a local attacker executing arbitrary code as group games.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.1-2.3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your typespeed package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.