Debian DSA-1180-1 : bomberclone - programming error

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22722

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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 unchecked 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.

Solution

Upgrade the bomberclone package.

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

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=382082

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-4005

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-4006

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1180

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22722

File Name: debian_DSA-1180.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bomberclone, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4005, CVE-2006-4006

DSA: 1180