SV: [SECURITY] [DSA 503-1] New mah-jong packages fix denial of service

["Lars Ingjer" <lars.ingjer@intelli.no>]

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> Fra: Martin Schulze [mailto:joey@infodrom.org]
> Sendt: 13. mai 2004 18:00
> Til: Debian Security Announcements
> Emne: [SECURITY] [DSA 503-1] New mah-jong packages fix denial of service
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> Debian Security Advisory DSA 503-1                     security@debian.org
> http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
> May 13th, 2004                          http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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> Package        : mah-jong
> Vulnerability  : missing argument check
> Problem-Type   : remote
> Debian-specific: no
> CVE ID         : CAN-2004-0458
>
> A problem has been discovered in mah-jong, a variant of the original
> Mah-Jong game, that can be utilised to crash the game server after
> dereferencing a NULL pointer.  This bug be exploited by any client
> that connects to the mah-jong server.
>
> For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
> version 1.4-3.
>
> For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
> version 1.6.2-1.
>
> We recommend that you upgrade your mah-jong package.
>
>
> Upgrade Instructions
> - --------------------
>
> 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 3.0 alias woody
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>
>   Source archives:
>
>
> http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3.dsc
>       Size/MD5 checksum:      579 fbaaaa02b4da5b54980a857978953ad9
>
> http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1
> .4-3.diff.gz
>       Size/MD5 checksum:    24223 d80c110b7e32860173816378c9a0b668
>
> http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1
> .4.orig.tar.gz
>       Size/MD5 checksum:   259474 21cc99ddb9ae91cbe02b2119586f8860
>
>   Alpha architecture:
>
>
> http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1
> .4-3_alpha.deb
>       Size/MD5 checksum:   311528 2c8c14d83e1488d49332ad1617a92d68
>
>   ARM architecture:
>
>
> http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1
> .4-3_arm.deb
>       Size/MD5 checksum:   272438 7be6ba070c69a00507c6014ef4246cc6
>
>   Intel IA-32 architecture:
>
>
> http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1
> .4-3_i386.deb
>       Size/MD5 checksum:   250086 a7ebbe382d8eb1328901092a6b2b3352
>
>   Intel IA-64 architecture:
>
>
> http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1
> .4-3_ia64.deb
>       Size/MD5 checksum:   380046 2ca54902cb7e346c75472032c0d4d2f7
>
>   HP Precision architecture:
>
>
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_hppa.
deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   286928 567894a21a4c911ec9b8287fd089c474

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_m68k.
deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   234534 3e57a18a0a4081b300259e9dd82ab48b

  Big endian MIPS architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_mips.
deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   262024 65c7e3c93be2bd4ed8a8785d281828f3

  Little endian MIPS architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_mipse
l.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   261836 523bf9927fd506d7d7eaeeb9a80ed8ba

  PowerPC architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_power
pc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   271728 ac75e854e4d5b3dc8836d06a433f5d8f

  IBM S/390 architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_s390.
deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   246212 0560d3f71a4e98578d4dcf14811605a3

  Sun Sparc architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-3_sparc
.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   269534 b3caab927da9daf5c01e81b3e70a7437


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

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