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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-17
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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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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

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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at   
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Gentoo: gnocatan multiple vulnerabilities

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

Resolution

References

Availability

Concerns

Severity
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

Synopsis

Background

Affected Packages

Impact

Workaround

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