GLSA 200711-20: Pioneers: Multiple Denials of Service

Severity:normal
Title:Pioneers: Multiple Denials of Service
Date:11/14/2007
Bugs: #198807
ID:200711-20

Synopsis

Two Denial of Service vulnerabilities were discovered in Pioneers.

Background

Pioneers (formerly gnocatan) is a clone of the popular board game "The Settlers of Catan".

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected Architecture(s)
games-board/pioneers < 0.11.3-r1 >= 0.11.3-r1 All supported architectures

Description

Roland Clobus discovered that the Pioneers server may free sessions objects while they are still in use, resulting in access to invalid memory zones (CVE-2007-5933). Bas Wijnen discovered an error when closing connections which can lead to a failed assertion (CVE-2007-6010).

Impact

A remote attacker could send specially crafted data to the vulnerable server, resulting in a Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Pioneers users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=games-board/pioneers-0.11.3-r1"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-20.xml

Concerns?

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License

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