Debian: DSA-3948-1: ioquake3 security update

Date 19 Aug 2017

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

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.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3948-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff
August 19, 2017                       https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : ioquake3
CVE ID         : CVE-2017-11721

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 oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.36+u20140802+gca9eebb-2+deb8u2.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.36+u20161101+dfsg1-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ioquake3 packages.

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