Package : crawl Vulnerability : insecure program execution Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-0044
Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered a security related problem in crawl, another console based dungeon exploration game in the vein of nethack and rogue. The program executes commands insecurely when saving or loading games which can allow local attackers to gain group games privileges.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.0beta23-2woody2.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.0beta26-4sarge0.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.0beta26-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your crawl package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------