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Debian: DSA-3940-1 Critical: iortcw Buffer Overflow DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey August 13, 2017
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A critical vulnerability identified in the Quake III engine may lead to denial of service attacks. Users running Debian are urged to install the latest security update.
A read buffer overflow was discovered in the idtech3 (Quake III Arena) family of game engines

Summary

A read buffer overflow was discovered in the idtech3 (Quake III Arena)
family of game engines. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial
of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact
via a crafted packet.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.50a+dfsg1-3+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your iortcw packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: iortcw
CVE ID: CVE-2017-11721

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