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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55597
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-856-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'py2play' package(s) announced via the DSA-856-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'py2play' package(s) announced via the DSA-856-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Arc Riley discovered that py2play, a peer-to-peer network game engine, is able to execute arbitrary code received from the p2p game network it is connected to without any security checks.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain py2play packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.7-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.8-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your py2play package.

Affected Software/OS:
'py2play' package(s) on Debian 3.1.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2875
BugTraq ID: 14864
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14864
Debian Security Information: DSA-856 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-856
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-09.xml
http://soya.literati.org/
http://secunia.com/advisories/16855
http://secunia.com/advisories/17106
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