Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Typespeed, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "addnewword()" function when copying data received from the network. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation requires that the user was enabled network game.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.4.4. Other versions may also be affected.
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