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Debian 4.0 DSA 1386-2 Critical: Wesnoth Denial Of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2007
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1386-3: Addressing a remote denial of service vulnerability in wesnoth linked to mismanagement of incoming data.
A problem has been discovered in the processing of chat messages

Summary


For the old stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.0-6 and in version 1.2.7-1~bpo31+1 of sarge-backports.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2-2 and in version 1.2.7-1~bpo40+1 of etch-backports.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.7-1.

Packages for the oldstable mips architecture will be added to the
archive later.

We recommend that you upgrade your wesnoth 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 at the end of this advisory:

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.


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