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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200604-05 |
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Severity: High |
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Title: Doomsday: Format string vulnerability |
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Date: April 06, 2006 |
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Bugs: #128690 |
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ID: 200604-05 |
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Synopsis |
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Format string vulnerabilities in Doomsday may lead to the execution of |
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arbitrary code. |
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Background |
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Doomsday is a modern gaming engine for popular ID games like Doom, |
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Heretic and Hexen. |
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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 |
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to another package if one is available or wait for the |
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existing packages to be marked stable by their |
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architecture maintainers. |
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Description |
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Luigi Auriemma discovered that Doomsday incorrectly implements |
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formatted printing. |
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Impact |
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A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute |
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arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the Doomsday server |
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or client by sending specially crafted strings. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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Doomsday has been masked in Portage pending the resolution of these |
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issues. All Doomsday users are advised to uninstall the package until |
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further notice. |
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# emerge --ask --verbose --unmerge games-fps/doomsday |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2006-1618 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1618 |
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[ 2 ] Original advisory by Luigi Auriemma |
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http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/doomsdayfs-adv.txt |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200604-05.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 |