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Debian DSA-350-1 : falconseye - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15187

Synopsis

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

Description

The falconseye package is vulnerable to a buffer overflow exploited via a long -s command line option. This vulnerability could be used by an attacker to gain gid 'games' on a system where falconseye is installed.

Note that falconseye does not contain the file permission error CAN-2003-0359 which affected some other nethack packages.

Solution

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.3-7woody3.

We recommend that you update your falconseye package.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-350

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15187

File Name: debian_DSA-350.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:falconseye

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0358

BID: 6806

DSA: 350