PT-2006-2736 · Bsd · Bsdgames

Moritz Muehlenhoff · Published 2006-04-12 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2006-1744

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: BSDgames versions prior to 2.17-7

Description: The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the pl main.c file of the sail component in BSDgames. This occurs when a local user provides a long player name, which is then used in a scanf function call, allowing the execution of arbitrary code.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 2.17-7, update to version 2.17-7 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-1744

DSA-1036-1

Affected Products

Bsdgames

References · 11

• http://debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1036 · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/24634 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19687 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-1744 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2006-1744 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1744 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1744 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360989 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/736 · Note
• http://pulltheplug.org/fu/?q=node/56 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/17401 · Note