A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - UFO2000: Multiple vulnerabilities. Here the announcement:

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200702-10
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Severity: Normal
Title: UFO2000: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: February 25, 2007
Bugs: #142392
ID: 200702-10

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the network components of
UFO2000 that could result in the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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UFO2000 is a multi-player, turn-based tactical simulation.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 games-strategy/ufo2000 < 0.7.1062 >= 0.7.1062

Description
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Five vulnerabilities were found: a buffer overflow in recv_add_unit();
a problem with improperly trusting user-supplied string information in
decode_stringmap(); several issues with array manipulation via various
commands during play; an SQL injection in server_protocol.cpp; and
finally, a second buffer overflow in recv_map_data().

Impact
======

An attacker could send crafted network traffic as part of a
multi-player game that could result in remote code execution on the
remote opponent or the server. A remote attacker could also run
arbitrary SQL queries against the server account database, and perform
a Denial of Service on a remote opponent by causing the game to crash.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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UFO2000 currently depends on the dumb-0.9.2 library, which has been
removed from portage due to security problems (GLSA 200608-14) .
Because of this, UFO2000 has been masked, and we recommend unmerging
the package until the next beta release can remove the dependency on
dumb.

# emerge --ask --verbose --unmerge ufo2000

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2006-3788
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3788
[ 2 ] CVE-2006-3789
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3789
[ 3 ] CVE-2006-3790
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3790
[ 4 ] CVE-2006-3791
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3791
[ 5 ] CVE-2006-3792
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3792
[ 6 ] GLSA 200608-14
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-14.xml

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-10.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5