<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <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>2006-04-06</announced> <revised count="02">2006-06-15</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 ">=games-fps/doomsday-1.9.0_beta4"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://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="2006-04-04T04:57:40Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-04-04T10:51:26Z"> DerCorny </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-04-04T12:10:41Z"> DerCorny </metadata> </glsa>