Title: Typespeed Local Format String Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
typespeed is a game designed to test typing skills. It is available for the Linux operating system. typespeed is installed setgid 'games' by default on the Debian Linux distribution.
typespeed is affected by an unspecified format string vulnerability. This issue is due to an improper implementation of a formatted string function.
Specific technical details about this issue were not disclosed. As a result of this issue, malicious data containing format specifiers will be interpreted literally by the application; this may result in attacker-specified memory being corrupted or disclosed, leading to arbitrary code execution as group games.
Affected Products:
- Debian Linux 3.0.0
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 arm
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mips
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ppc
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 sparc
- Typespeed Typespeed 0.4.1
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