Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1102-1 pinball -- design error

Date Reported:
26 Jun 2006
Affected Packages:
pinball
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2196.
More information:

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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball_0.3.1-3sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball_0.3.1-3sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball_0.3.1.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball-data_0.3.1-3sarge1_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball_0.3.1-3sarge1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball-dev_0.3.1-3sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball_0.3.1-3sarge1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball-dev_0.3.1-3sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball_0.3.1-3sarge1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball-dev_0.3.1-3sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball_0.3.1-3sarge1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball-dev_0.3.1-3sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball_0.3.1-3sarge1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball-dev_0.3.1-3sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball_0.3.1-3sarge1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball-dev_0.3.1-3sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball_0.3.1-3sarge1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball-dev_0.3.1-3sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball_0.3.1-3sarge1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball-dev_0.3.1-3sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball_0.3.1-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball-dev_0.3.1-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball_0.3.1-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball-dev_0.3.1-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball_0.3.1-3sarge1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball-dev_0.3.1-3sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball_0.3.1-3sarge1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pinball/pinball-dev_0.3.1-3sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.