New typespeed packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 684-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
February 16th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : typespeed
Vulnerability : format string
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-0105

Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a problem in typespeed, a touch-typist trainer disguised as game. This could lead to a local attacker executing arbitrary code as group games.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.1-2.3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your typespeed package.



Upgrade Instructions
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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
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 575 70ebea5828757f0c963a27e2d87d8515
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 8457 78235ab890462e83f9c2779d0882e329
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 35492 0af9809cd20bd9010732ced930090f32

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 44486 81d20c78d05fd028c5d40a77fc09923d

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 39164 5eedf595ec3b9714e1c7de731f34e5a1

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 38852 96e8651b24c5cbc48bfb21ed4e8196d4

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 50122 d422760c9350d78d2b30a933a2b25df0

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 42064 0123e88f6b81d9d95f43d06a73e015b6

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 37570 8052b9b8e45dbba90b946eb76d8625fa

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 41224 897c4771e1cd215e178cb4cc922ede0a

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 41250 0972a4ec92ec47bb4cd81e10a9255bee

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 41408 0e3c124090e9f410fe82751214c68cdd

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 38994 0b9306e15ab0afa697ad9aca5fd799e7

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/typespeed/typespeed_0.4.1-2.3_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 43140 e7f9fbb0dc02dadf975a4f22a0fadc94


These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update.