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alienarena: buffer overflow

Package(s):alienarena CVE #(s):CVE-2009-3637
Created:November 6, 2009 Updated:November 11, 2009
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla: Buffer overflow flaw was found in the way used to validate remote game servers to be added into the server list. A remote attacker sending a specially-crafted UDP reply from game server could execute arbitrary code on the side and with the privileges of alienarena game client.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2009-11066 2009-11-05
Fedora FEDORA-2009-11034 2009-11-05
Fedora FEDORA-2009-11066 2009-11-05
Fedora FEDORA-2009-11034 2009-11-05
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