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Debian: New bomberclone packages fix several vulnerabilities

Luigi Auriemma discovered two security related bugs in bomberclone, a free Bomberman clone. The program copies remotely provided data uncheced which could lead to a denial of service via an application crash. Bomberclone uses remotely provided data as length argument which can lead to the disclosure of private information. Fixed packages are available from security.debian.org.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1180-1                    security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
September 19th, 2006                    http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : bomberclone
Vulnerability  : programming error
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE IDs        : CVE-2006-4005 CVE-2006-4006
Debian Bug     : 382082

Luigi Auriemma discovered two security related bugs in bomberclone, a
free Bomberman clone.  The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2006-4005

   The program copies remotely provided data uncheced which could
   lead to a denial of service via an application crash.

CVE-2006-4006

   Bomberclone uses remotely provided data as length argument which
   can lead to the disclosure of private information.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.11.5-1sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.11.7-0.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your bomberclone package.


Upgrade Instructions
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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 at the end of this advisory:

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 3.1 alias sarge
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 Source archives:

   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2.dsc
     Size/MD5 checksum:      667 cbe987c986795ab58a76f94b5ef1a395
   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2.diff.gz
     Size/MD5 checksum:    11557 ec74e1af39d5d4d5d5d78f1e1d8b4410
   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5.orig.tar.gz
     Size/MD5 checksum:  7985803 cd2834d68980dd506038db44728cd2b1

 Architecture independent components:

   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone-data_0.11.5-1sarge2_all.deb
     Size/MD5 checksum:  7587084 a3b3e8deed12d2fb4e275c48d304ceda

 Alpha architecture:

   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_alpha.deb
     Size/MD5 checksum:   128488 fa2c38b47778b1666fcee067f7a2dfdd

 AMD64 architecture:

   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_amd64.deb
     Size/MD5 checksum:   114760 3d8f3238a6951b39e572ec951da3abba

 ARM architecture:

   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_arm.deb
     Size/MD5 checksum:   117442 2bec60a3ab8dec06a3deee97874cbcd3

 HP Precision architecture:

   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_hppa.deb
     Size/MD5 checksum:   107862 e4848473c0a9bf764b7ff19f6ddcc305

 Intel IA-32 architecture:

   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_i386.deb
     Size/MD5 checksum:    95814 0544b1852ecc1b7d334ab83903d10340

 Intel IA-64 architecture:

   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_ia64.deb
     Size/MD5 checksum:   172144 85c23254eea91bfa9fe472605dbacc7a

 Motorola 680x0 architecture:

   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_m68k.deb
     Size/MD5 checksum:    94674 cedaf30749af327b464a6b0db49a7f7f

 Big endian MIPS architecture:

   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_mips.deb
     Size/MD5 checksum:   116342 115f0bf0336382545678bcad2915c7ac

 Little endian MIPS architecture:

   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_mipsel.deb
     Size/MD5 checksum:   116170 84781360ddd8060764beaa275a4aeef8

 PowerPC architecture:

   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_powerpc.deb
     Size/MD5 checksum:   102100 3c7fae1231944d6f389ceb35708d4da2

 IBM S/390 architecture:

   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_s390.deb
     Size/MD5 checksum:   113362 9a218180b3c4b4dad8098b736f55787d

 Sun Sparc architecture:

   http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bomberclone/bomberclone_0.11.5-1sarge2_sparc.deb
     Size/MD5 checksum:   103214 e8c96a3aa5633fd269d6b589ce9827dd


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

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/

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