Summary
The remote host is missing an update to falconseye announced via advisory DSA 350-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20350-1
Insight
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 CVE-2003-0359 which affected some other nethack packages.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.3-7woody3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.3-9.
We recommend that you update your falconseye package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2003-0358, CVE-2003-0359 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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