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Fedora 11: FEDORA-2009-10439 Critical DoS Issue in Dopewars 1.5.12

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Version 1.5.12-8.1033svn of dopewars has been released for Fedora 11, which fixes a denial-of-service vulnerability and improves overall security efficiency.
Fix DoS.

Summary

Based on John E. Dell's old Drug Wars game, dopewars is a simulation of an

imaginary drug market. dopewars is an All-American game which features

buying, selling, and trying to get past the cops!

The first thing you need to do is pay off your debt to the Loan Shark. After

that, your goal is to make as much money as possible (and stay alive)! You

have one month of game time to make your fortune.

dopewars supports multiple players via. TCP/IP. Chatting to and fighting

with other players (computer or human) is supported; check the command line

switches (via dopewars -h) for further information.

Update Information:

Fix DoS.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora DoS issue Dopewars

Change Log

* Fri Oct 9 2009 Jussi Lehtola - 1.5.12-8.1033svn - Update to svn release to address security issues. * Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.5.12-7 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #528081 - CVE-2009-3591 dopewars: DoS via REQUESTJET message with an invalid location https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528081

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update dopewars' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: dopewarsProduct : Fedora 11
Version: 1.5.12
Release: 8.1033svn.fc11
URL: https://dopewars.sourceforge.io/
Summary: A drug dealing game

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora DoS issue Dopewars

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