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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200606-20">
  <title>Typespeed: Remote execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    A buffer overflow in the network code of Typespeed can lead to the
    execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">typespeed</product>
  <announced>June 19, 2006</announced>
  <revised>June 19, 2006: 01</revised>
  <bug>135071</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="games-misc/typespeed" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.5.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.5.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Typespeed is a game to test and practice 10-finger-typing. Network code
    allows two users to compete head-to-head.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Niko Tyni discovered a buffer overflow in the addnewword() function of
    Typespeed's network code.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    By sending specially crafted network packets to a machine running
    Typespeed in multiplayer mode, a remote attacker can execute arbitrary
    code with the permissions of the user running the game.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    Do not run Typespeed in multiplayer mode. There is no known workaround
    at this time for multiplayer mode.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Typespeed users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=games-misc/typespeed-0.5.0&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1515">CVE-2006-1515</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:01:54 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:10:07 +0000">
    frilled
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:23:54 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
</glsa>