Pioneers chat message denial of service

pioneers-chat-message-dos (24383)

Low Risk

Description:

Pioneers (gnocatan) is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. A remote attacker could send an overly long chat message to the server to cause the server to crash and possibly cause any connected Pioneers clients to crash.

*CVSS:

Base Score:	5
Access Vector:	Remote
Access Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	Not Required
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Complete
Temporal Score:	3.7
Exploitability:	Unproven
Remediation Level:	Official-Fix
Report Confidence:	Confirmed

Consequences:

Denial of Service

Remedy:

Upgrade to the latest version of Pioneers (0.9.49 or later), available from SourceForge.net. See References.

For Debian GNU/Linux:
Refer to DSA-964-1 for upgrade information. See References.

References:

• Debian Bug report logs - #350237: pioneers: Client and server can crash from huge chat buffer.
• SourceForge.net: Pioneers.
• BID-16429: Pioneers Chat Buffer Denial Of Service Vulnerability
• CVE-2006-0467: Unspecified vulnerability in Pioneers (formerly gnocatan) before 0.9.49 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via long chat messages.
• DSA-964: gnocatan -- buffer overflow
• SA18647: Pioneers Long Chat Message Denial of Service Vulnerability
• VUPEN/ADV-2006-0376: Pioneers Chat Message Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Platforms Affected:

• Debian Debian Linux 3.0
• Debian Debian Linux 3.1
• Pioneers Pioneers 0.9.40 and prior

Reported:

Jan 30, 2006

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