[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200901-06 ] Tremulous: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200901-06

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Severity: Normal

Title: Tremulous: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Date: January 11, 2009

Bugs: #222119

ID: 200901-06

 

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Synopsis

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A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Tremulous.

 

Background

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Tremulous is a team-based First Person Shooter game.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 games-fps/tremulous < 1.1.0-r2 >= 1.1.0-r2

2 games-fps/tremulous-bin < 1.1.0 Vulnerable!

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NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate

to another package if one is available or wait for the

existing packages to be marked stable by their

architecture maintainers.

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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.

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Description

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It has been reported that Tremulous includes a vulnerable version of

the ioQuake3 engine (GLSA 200605-12, CVE-2006-2236).

 

Impact

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A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious games

server, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the

privileges of the user running the application.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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Tremulous users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=games-fps/tremulous-1.1.0-r2"

 

Note: The binary version of Tremulous has been removed from the Portage

tree.

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2006-2236

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2236

[ 2 ] GLSA 200605-12

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-12.xml

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-06.xml

 

Concerns?

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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

http://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2009 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5