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.
Platforms Affected:
- Debian, Debian Linux 3.0
- Debian, Debian Linux 3.1
- Pioneers, Pioneers 0.9.40 and prior
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.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
References:
- Debian Bug report logs - #350237, pioneers: Client and server can crash from huge chat buffer at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350237.
- SourceForge.net, Pioneers at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pio.
- 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
Reported:
Jan 30, 2006
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