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Gentoo: 200301-5 Critical: Monopd Buffer Overflow Remote Execution

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Calendar Grey January 6, 2003
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo enthusiasts must take note of a critical monopd buffer overflow vulnerability that allows for remote command execution. Timely updating is essential.
A buffer overflow exist in the messaging framework which would allow a remote user to execute commands as the user running the game server.

Summary


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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200301-5
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DATE    : 2003-01-06 12:01 UTC

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A buffer overflow exist in the messaging framework which would allow
a remote user to execute commands as the user running the game server.

More information is available at 
/alerts/2002/Dec/1005856.html

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
app-games/monopd-0.4.3-r1 or earlier update their systems as
follows:

emerge rsync
emerge monopd
emerge clean

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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at hannes@gentoo.org
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PACKAGE : monopd
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
EXPLOIT : remote

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