Package : crossfire Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-1010
It was discovered that Crossfire, a multiplayer adventure game, performs insufficient bounds checking on network packets when run in "oldsocketmode", which may possibly lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.0-1woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.0.dfsg.1-4sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.0-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your crossfire packages.
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 - --------------------------------