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Debian Mah-Jong Two Unspecified Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA9687
Release Date: 2003-09-09
Popularity: 8,932 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid

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CVE reference:CVE-2003-0705
CVE-2003-0706


Description:
Debian has reported two vulnerabilities in mah-jong, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system or cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

An unspecified boundary error can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow. This may allow execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the mah-jong server.

Another unspecified error can be exploited to cause the server to enter a loop and stop responding to commands.

Solution:
Updated packages:

-- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody --

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 579 b473dfb32c1765f3b96a1d4897a728a5
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 23814 c0465cd149b6f9bfc7f0096ab5d0d192
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_1.4-2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 311378 0ff83a703283cad7faa06609d330d9ef

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 272324 e6974d354918f6f4d0dffa3bb3eb4b9f

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 250012 a4f7d586918c3a712d073aa9e8e42bd5

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 379856 b63ee72a1a2f4ac16e902ae0f8b5b3e1

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 286728 c4c544f15f09199b753848cb7ee417d9

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 234410 91682fc41ab6fb8b57ebfb09681f3180

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 261874 977e1d059bbaca988a3cb60636e74d17

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updat.../m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 261666 45e1785dd5c17dcbec971fc8024b8787

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updat...m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 271566 5d25f219fdb987ca014775ae4ae9ee9c

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 246116 be071c93713eb1257f9a8b8225968ad8

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mah-jong/mah-jong_1.4-2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 269392 78b122c5b4145b039dda06d4e16cfe48


-- Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid --

Fixed in version 1.5.6-2.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Nicolas Boullis

Original Advisory:
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-378


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