Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Nexuiz, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Nexuiz Denial of Service and Command Injection
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24298
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24298/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Manipulation of data, DoS
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Nexuiz 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/13387/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Nexuiz, which can be
exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions
and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) An unspecified error involving "fake clients" can be exploited to
cause a DoS.
2) An error within "clientcommands" can be exploited to inject
arbitrary game console commands.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.2.1.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.2.1.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=470675&group_id=81584
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