TITLE:
Pioneers Long Chat Message Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18647

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18647/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Pioneers 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/7175/

DESCRIPTION:
Bas Wijnen has discovered a vulnerability in Pioneers, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is cause due to a boundary error in the game server
in the handling of an overly long chat message sent by a client. This
can be exploited to cause the server to terminate with an assertion
failure.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 0.9.40. Prior
versions may also be affected.

Note: The clients reportedly may also crash when receiving the overly
long message.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.9.49.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5095&package_id=5139

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Bas Wijnen

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Debian Bugzilla:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350237

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