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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes Pioneers Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes Pioneers Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3874
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5933 - CVE-2007-6010
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-11-16
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A vulnerability has been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error in Pioneers (formerly gnocatan) that may free sessions objects while they are still in use, resulting in access to invalid memory zones, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected server via a specially crafted request.
Affected Products
games-board/pioneers versions prior to 0.11.3
Solution
Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=games-board/pioneers-0.11.3"
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3874
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-20.xml
ChangeLog
2007-11-16 : Initial release
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