Gentoo: 200306-17 Critical: Gnocatan Remote Threat of Code Execution
gentoo
July 1, 2003
Bas Wijnen discovered that the gnocatan server is vulnerable to several buffer overflows which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the server system.
Summary
GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-17
quote from Debian DSA 315-1:
"Bas Wijnen discovered that the gnocatan server is vulnerable to several buffer overflows which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the server system."
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running app-games/gnocatan upgrade to gnocatan-0.7.1-r3 as follows
emerge sync emerge gnocatan emerge clean
aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at
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PACKAGE : gnocatan
SUMMARY : multiple buffer overflows and denial of service
DATE : 2003-06-28 20:50 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =gnocatan-0.7.1-r3
CVE : CAN-2003-0433
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