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Debian 3.1: DSA 964-1 Critical: Gnocatan Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 3, 2006
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Essential patch for gnocatan on Debian to remedy buffer overflow vulnerabilities leading to potential denial of service. Immediate update suggested.
A problem has been discovered in gnocatan, the computer version of the settlers of Catan boardgame, that can lead the server an other clients to exit via an assert, and hence doe...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8.1.59-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.49-1 of pioneers.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnocatan and pioneers packages.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 682 be4b8188f8a2a602922af5c863c0a0bf
Size/MD5 checksum: 9387 2b917d4b0f655dbd19dcbdaa2d314274
Size/MD5 checksum: 625157 a156f3fe3a50fbf91e9857a9d012e588

Architecture independent co...

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