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Debian: DSA-3948-1 Moderate: ioquake3 Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey August 19, 2017
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Keep updated on the latest Debian DSA-3949-2 notice concerning the libcurl security flaw and potential exploitation threats.
A read buffer overflow was discovered in the idtech3 (Quake III Arena) family of game engines
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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 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.

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/



Package: ioquake3
CVE ID: CVE-2017-11721

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