Summary
The remote host is missing an update to netris
announced via advisory DSA 372-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20372-1
Insight
Shaun Colley discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in netris, a network version of a popular puzzle game. A netris client connecting to an untrusted netris server could be sent an unusually long data packet, which would be copied into a fixed-length buffer without bounds checking. This vulnerability could be exploited to gain the priviliges of the user running netris in client mode, if they connect to a hostile netris server.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5-4woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem is fixed in version 0.52-1.
We recommend that you update your netris package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2003-0685 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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