Debian Security Advisory

DSA-378-1 mah-jong -- buffer overflows, denial of service

Date Reported:

07 Sep 2003

Affected Packages:

mah-jong

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-2003-0705, CAN-2003-0706.

More information:

Nicolas Boullis discovered two vulnerabilities in mah-jong, a network-enabled game.

• CAN-2003-0705 (buffer overflow)

  This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the mah-jong server.

• CAN-2003-0706 (denial of service)

  This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to cause the mah-jong server to enter a tight loop and stop responding to commands.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.4-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.6-2.

We recommend that you update your mah-jong package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.