glsa-201705-13.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201705-13">
  <title>Teeworlds: Remote execution of arbitrary code on client</title>
  <synopsis>Teeworlds client vulnerability in snap handling could result in
    execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">teeworlds</product>
  <announced>2017-05-26</announced>
  <revised>2017-05-26: 2</revised>
  <bug>600178</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="games-action/teeworlds" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.6.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.6.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Teeworlds is an online multi-player platform 2D shooter.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Teeworlds client contains a vulnerability allowing a malicious server to
      execute arbitrary code, or write to arbitrary physical memory via the
      CClient::ProcessServerPacket method.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote malicious server can write to arbitrary physical memory
      locations and possibly execute arbitrary if a vulnerable client joins the
      server.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Teeworlds users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=games-action/teeworlds-0.6.4:0"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9400">CVE-2016-9400</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-05-09T06:08:59Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-05-26T06:22:30Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
</glsa>