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Gentoo: 200711-20 Normal: Pioneers Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey November 14, 2007
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A weakness in Explorers might enable Denial of Service assaults. Users are advised to update.
A vulnerability has been discovered in Pioneers, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200711-20
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Pioneers: Denial of Service
      Date: November 14, 2007
      Bugs: #198807
        ID: 200711-20


Synopsis
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A vulnerability has been discovered in Pioneers, possibly resulting in
a Denial of Service.

Background
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Pioneers (formerly gnocatan) is a clone of the popular board game "The
Settlers of Catan".

Affected packages
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     Package               /  Vulnerable  /                 Unaffected
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  1  games-board/pioneers      < 0.11.3                      >= 0.11.3

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Bas Wijnen discovered that the Pioneers server may free sessions
objects while they are still in use, resulting in access ...
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