Re: Buffer Overflow in Spider game

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:23:46 +0100
Steve Kemp <steve_at_steve.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:05:23PM +0300, Security Team wrote:
>
> > A vulnerability has been discovered in the game spider, an
> > application contained in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
> > The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated
> > privileges by overflowing the -s parameter.
> >
> > Impact:
> > The attacker can gain group privileges. By default "games".
>
> Neither Debian stable nor unstable contain any spider binaries
> setuid or setgid.

*cut the linux crap ;)*

He didn't said DEBIAN is affected.
He just said it's contained in Debian.
I would take "contained" as example.... not as "only affected".
And he also didn't said something about getting r00t.
Just group privileges... (getting "games"-gid.. w00w00 ;)).

Even Debian dosn't setuid/setguid spider it's include and I'm sure the
author wouldn't report things wich don't work.

So get the "games"-gid with this error and be happy. ;-)
And spend honor to the guys who allow the "games"-group to use adduser. :)

vh