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TITLE:
LTris Highscore List Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14635

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14635/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
LTris 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/1547/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in LTris, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the handling
of highscore lists. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow
by manipulating the global highscore list.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with
the privileges of the user running the vulnerable game, but requires
permissions to modify the global highscore list.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.9 or later.
http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LTris

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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