<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200711-20"> <title>Pioneers: Multiple Denials of Service</title> <synopsis> Two Denial of Service vulnerabilities were discovered in Pioneers. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">pioneers</product> <announced>2007-11-14</announced> <revised count="04">2007-11-29</revised> <bug>198807</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="games-board/pioneers" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.11.3-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.11.3-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Pioneers (formerly gnocatan) is a clone of the popular board game "The Settlers of Catan". </p> </background> <description> <p> Roland Clobus discovered that the Pioneers server may free sessions objects while they are still in use, resulting in access to invalid memory zones (CVE-2007-5933). Bas Wijnen discovered an error when closing connections which can lead to a failed assertion (CVE-2007-6010). </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could send specially crafted data to the vulnerable server, resulting in a Denial of Service. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Pioneers users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=games-board/pioneers-0.11.3-r1"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5933">CVE-2007-5933</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6010">CVE-2007-6010</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-11-11T15:28:52Z"> rbu </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-11-13T22:49:53Z"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-11-13T23:00:46Z"> p-y </metadata> </glsa>