Pioneers Long Chat Message Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA18647
Release Date: 2006-01-30
Last Update: 2006-02-03
Popularity: 5,296 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Pioneers (formerly gnocatan) 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-0467


Description:
Bas Wijnen has discovered a vulnerability in Pioneers, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is cause due to a boundary error in the game server in the handling of an overly long chat message sent by a client. This can be exploited to cause the server to terminate with an assertion failure.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 0.9.40. Prior versions may also be affected.

Note: The clients reportedly may also crash when receiving the overly long message.

Solution:
Update to version 0.9.49.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5095&package_id=5139

Provided and/or discovered by:
Bas Wijnen

Changelog:
2006-02-03: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
Debian Bugzilla:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350237


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