Gentoo: GLSA-200702-09 Normal: Nexuiz Remote Code Execution and DoS

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200702-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Nexuiz: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: February 25, 2007 Bugs: #166044 ID: 200702-09

Synopsis ======= Two separate vulnerabilities have been found in Nexuiz allowing the remote execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.
Background ========= Nexuiz is a multi-player FPS game which uses a modified version of the Quake 1 engine.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 games-fps/nexuiz < 2.2.1 >= 2.2.1
========== Nexuiz fails to correctly validate input within "clientcommands". There is also a failure to correctly handle connection attempts f...