Secunia Security Advisory - Bas Wijnen has reported a vulnerability in Pioneers, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Pioneers Denial of Service Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27522
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27522/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Pioneers (formerly gnocatan) 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/7175/
DESCRIPTION:
Bas Wijnen has reported a vulnerability in Pioneers, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a session object being deleted
while still in use. This can be exploited to crash the Pioneers
server by sending specially crafted data.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.11.3.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.11.3.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Bas Wijnen
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449541
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