Title: Abuse Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Abuse is a popular side-scrolling video game. It is available for Linux and Unix operating systems.
Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in both the abuse.console and abuse.x11R6 files, which are installed setuid 'root' and setgid 'games' respectively.
It is possible to trigger the overflow by passing an execessively long string, containing roughly 500 bytes, as a parameter to the '-net' command line argument.
Exploiting this issue would allow a local attacker to overwrite sensitive memory variables, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with super user privileges.
It should be noted that Abuse 2.00, packaged and distributed with the x86 architecture of Debian Linux 3.0 has been reported vulnerable. It is not yet known if other packages are affected by this
Affected Products:
- Abuse Abuse 2.0.0
- 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
References:
- http://www.abuse2.com/: Abuse Product Page
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