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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:26 pm Post subject: [ GLSA 200603-26 ] bsd-games: Local privilege escalation in |
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
Title: bsd-games: Local privilege escalation in tetris-bsd (GLSA 200603-26)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: local
Date: March 29, 2006
Updated: May 22, 2006
Bug(s): #122399
ID: 200603-26
Synopsis
tetris-bsd is prone to local privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
Background
bsd-games is a collection of NetBSD games ported to Linux.
Affected Packages
Package: games-misc/bsd-games
Vulnerable: < 2.17-r1
Unaffected: >= 2.17-r1
Architectures: All supported architectures
Description
Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that the checkscores() function in scores.c reads in the data from the /var/games/tetris-bsd.scores file without validation, rendering it vulnerable to buffer overflows and incompatible with the system used for managing games on Gentoo Linux. As a result, it cannot be played securely on systems with multiple users. Please note that this is probably a Gentoo-specific issue.
Impact
A local user who is a member of group "games" may be able to modify the tetris-bsd.scores file to trigger the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of other players.
Workaround
Do not add untrusted users to the "games" group.
Resolution
All bsd-games users are advised to update to the latest version: Code: | # emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=games-misc/bsd-games-2.17-r1" |
References
CVE-2006-1539
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