GLSA 200702-10: UFO2000: Multiple vulnerabilities
| Severity: | normal |
| Title: | UFO2000: Multiple vulnerabilities |
| Date: | 02/25/2007 |
| Bugs: | |
| ID: | 200702-10 |
Synopsis
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the network components of UFO2000 that could result in the remote execution of arbitrary code.Background
UFO2000 is a multi-player, turn-based tactical simulation.
Affected packages
| Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| games-strategy/ufo2000 | < 0.7.1062 | >= 0.7.1062 | All supported architectures |
Description
Five vulnerabilities were found: a buffer overflow in recv_add_unit(); a problem with improperly trusting user-supplied string information in decode_stringmap(); several issues with array manipulation via various commands during play; an SQL injection in server_protocol.cpp; and finally, a second buffer overflow in recv_map_data().
Impact
An attacker could send crafted network traffic as part of a multi-player game that could result in remote code execution on the remote opponent or the server. A remote attacker could also run arbitrary SQL queries against the server account database, and perform a Denial of Service on a remote opponent by causing the game to crash.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
UFO2000 currently depends on the dumb-0.9.2 library, which has been removed from portage due to security problems (GLSA 200608-14) . Because of this, UFO2000 has been masked, and we recommend unmerging the package until the next beta release can remove the dependency on dumb.
# emerge --ask --verbose --unmerge ufo2000
References
Availability
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License
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