Title: Pioneers Chat Buffer Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Pioneers is an Internet game acting as both client and server.
Pioneers is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to handle exceptional conditions.
The problem occurs when the server attempts to handle an excessively large chat buffer coming from a connected client. The server will either crash or send the buffer to other clients, causing vulnerable versions to crash.
An attacker can exploit this issue to crash the affected Pioneers server and possibly clients connected to a vulnerable Pioneers server.
This issue is reported to affect version 0.9.40; other versions may also be vulnerable.
Affected Products:
- Debian Linux 3.0.0
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 arm
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mips
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ppc
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 sparc
- Debian Linux 3.1.0
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 amd64
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 arm
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 mips
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 ppc
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 sparc
- Pioneers Pioneers 0.9.40
References:
- Debian: DSA-964-1 gnocatan -- buffer overflow
- Debian: Debian Bug report logs - #350237 - pioneers: Client and server can crash from hu
- Pioneers: Pioneers Homepage
- Pioneers: Release Name: CVS snapshots
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