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wesnoth: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):wesnoth CVE #(s):CVE-2009-0366 CVE-2009-0367
Created:March 12, 2009 Updated:March 18, 2009
Description: The game wesnoth has multiple vulnerabilities. From the Debian alert:

CVE-2009-0366 Daniel Franke discovered that the wesnoth server is prone to a denial of service attack when receiving special crafted compressed data.

CVE-2009-0367 Daniel Franke discovered that the sandbox implementation for the python AIs can be used to execute arbitrary python code on wesnoth clients. In order to prevent this issue, the python support has been disabled. A compatibility patch was included, so that the affected campagne is still working properly.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-1737-1 2009-03-11

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