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alienarena: denial of service

Package(s):alienarena CVE #(s):
Created:April 9, 2010 Updated:April 14, 2010
Description: From the Fedora advisory:

By supplying various invalid parameters to the download command, it is possible to cause a DoS condition by causing the server to crash. A path ending in . or / will crash on Linux. Supplying a negative offset will cause a crash on all platforms. - Fix buffer overflow identified in R1Q2 client code.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2010-6132 2010-04-09
Fedora FEDORA-2010-6068 2010-04-09
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