Title: Typespeed Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: LOW
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.
A vulnerability has been discovered in Typespeed. It is possible to trigger a buffer overflow in Typespeed by passing excessive data as a user-supplied parameter. By exploiting this issue to overwrite sensitive locations in memory it may be possible for a local attacker to execute commands with elevated privileges.
The precise technical details regarding this vulnerability are not yet known. This BID will be updated as further information becomes available.
Affected Products:
- Debian Linux 2.2.0
- Debian Linux 2.2.0 68k
- Debian Linux 2.2.0 IA-32
- Debian Linux 2.2.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 2.2.0 arm
- Debian Linux 2.2.0 powerpc
- Debian Linux 2.2.0 sparc
- 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 0.4.0
- Typespeed Typespeed 0.4.1
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