oss-security - CVE Request -- alienarena

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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:57:21 +0200
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
CC: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: CVE Request -- alienarena - 7.31

Hello Steve, vendors,

   remotely exploitable buffer overflow flaw by processing specially-crafted UDP reply from game
server (leading to arbitrary code execution) was fixed in latest upstream alienarena-7.31
release.

References:
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http://www.ngssoftware.com/brochures/Anonymous.Remote.Arbitrary.Code.Execution.in.Alien.Arena.pdf (More descriptive issue details)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=552038 (Original source)
http://icculus.org/alienarena/changelogs/7.31.txt (Revisions 1390 and 1391).

Upstream patch:
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http://svn.icculus.org/alienarena/trunk/source/client/menu.c?r1=1383&r2=1391 (Merged change of 1390 and 1391)

Could you allocate a CVE identifier?

Thanks && Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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