Gentoo: GLSA-200604-05 High: Doomsday Format String Risk Threat
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April 6, 2006
Format string vulnerabilities in Doomsday may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200604-05
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: Doomsday: Format string vulnerability
Date: April 06, 2006
Bugs: #128690
ID: 200604-05
Synopsis
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Format string vulnerabilities in Doomsday may lead to the execution of
arbitrary code.
Background
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Doomsday is a modern gaming engine for popular ID games like Doom,
Heretic and Hexen.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 games-fps/doomsday <= 1.8.6-r1 Vulnerable!
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NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate
to another package if one is available or wait for the
existing packages to be marked stable by their
architecture maintainers.
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Luigi Auriemma discovered that Doomsday incorrectly implements
formatted printing.
Impact
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A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute
arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the...
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