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Pioneers Long Chat Message Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA18647
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Release Date:
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2006-01-30
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Last Update:
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2006-02-03
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Popularity:
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5,296 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Pioneers (formerly gnocatan) 0.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-0467
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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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