gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200604-05.xml

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<glsa id="200604-05">
  <title>Doomsday: Format string vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    Format string vulnerabilities in Doomsday may lead to the execution of
    arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">doomsday</product>
  <announced>April 06, 2006</announced>
  <revised>June 15, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>128690</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="games-fps/doomsday" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.9.0_beta4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">1.9.0_beta4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Doomsday is a modern gaming engine for popular ID games like Doom,
    Heretic and Hexen.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Luigi Auriemma discovered that Doomsday incorrectly implements
    formatted printing.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute
    arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the Doomsday server
    or client by sending specially crafted strings.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Doomsday users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=games-fps/doomsday-1.9.0_beta4&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1618">CVE-2006-1618</uri>
    <uri link="http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/doomsdayfs-adv.txt">Original advisory by Luigi Auriemma</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:57:40 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:51:26 +0000">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:10:41 +0000">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
</glsa>