Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:10:15 +0100
From: Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: GLSA: nethack
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-08
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PACKAGE : nethack
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
DATE : 2003-02-18 09:10 UTC
EXPLOIT : local
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Overflowing a buffer in nethack may lead to privelige escalation to
games uid.
Read the full advisory at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104489201032144&w=2
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
app-games/nethack upgrade to nethack-3.4.0-r6 as follows:
emerge sync
emerge -u nethack
emerge clean
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