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Secunia Advisory SA18647

Pioneers Long Chat Message Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA18647
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Release Date 2006-01-30
Last Update 2006-02-03
   
Popularity 7,408 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Pioneers (formerly gnocatan) 0.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-0467 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

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.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Bas Wijnen

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

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