Two buffer overflows have been discovered in purity, a game for nerds and hackers, which is installed setgid games on a Debian system. This problem could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to the group games. A malicious user could alter the highscore of several games.
This problem has been fixed in version 1-14.2 for the current stable distribution (woody), in version 1-9.1 for the old stable distribution (potato) and in version 1-16 for the unstable distribution (sid).
We recommend that you upgrade your purity packages.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.