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Mageia 8 MGASA-2023-0212 Moderate: Xonotic Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey June 28, 2023
Scroller Mageia
Recent xonotic updates address a vulnerability that could permit remote code execution by threat agents on Mageia platforms.
A bug was discovered in versions older than 0.8.6 that is believed to be exploitable by malicious server admins to crash clients or, if they defeat mitigations, execute arbitrary c...

Summary

A bug was discovered in versions older than 0.8.6 that is believed to be exploitable by malicious server admins to crash clients or, if they defeat mitigations, execute arbitrary code. No working exploit code is known to exist at this time, See referenced release notes for other changes.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32038

- https://xonotic.org/posts/2023/xonotic-0-8-6-release/

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update remote code execution software bug Mageia Xonotic

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/xonotic-0.8.6-1.mga8

Publication date: 28 Jun 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0212.html
Type: security

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update remote code execution software bug Mageia Xonotic

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