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Gentoo: monopd buffer overflow vulnerability |
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Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team
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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.
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200301-5
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PACKAGE : monopd
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
DATE : 2003-01-06 12:01 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
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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
http://www.securitytracker.com/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 www.gentoo.org/~aliz
hannes@gentoo.org
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