Gentoo: 200301-5 Critical: Monopd Buffer Overflow Remote Execution
gentoo
January 6, 2003
A buffer overflow exist in the messaging framework which would allow a remote user to execute commands as the user running the game server.
Summary
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A buffer overflow exist in the messaging framework which would allow a remote user to execute commands as the user running the game server.
More information is available at /alerts/2002/Dec/1005856.html
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running app-games/monopd-0.4.3-r1 or earlier update their systems as follows:
emerge rsync emerge monopd emerge clean
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PACKAGE : monopd
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
EXPLOIT : remote
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