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[DSA503] DSA-503-1 mah-jong

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-503-1 mah-jong

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

A problem has been discovered in mah-jong, a variant of the original
Mah-Jong game, that can be utilised to crash the game server after
dereferencing a NULL pointer. This bug be exploited by any client
that connects to the mah-jong server.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4-3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mah-jong package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-503
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 10343

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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