Package : pinball Vulnerability : design error Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-2196
Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that pinball, a pinball simulator, can be tricked into loading level plugins from user-controlled directories without dropping privileges.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain this package.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.1-3sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.1-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your pinball 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 at the end of this advisory:
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 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------