Handling security issues?
Bruno Kleinert
fuddl at gmx.de
Sat Feb 11 00:05:35 UTC 2006
This one time, at band camp, Bruno Kleinert wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > Steve Kemp wrote:
> > >
> > > One of the things that initially made me interested in joining in
> > > with the group maintainership of games was the initial message
> > > posted to debian-devel.
> > >
> > > This had a small section suggesting that the games-team would be
> > > well placed to handle security issues.
> > >
> > > Lets practise now ;)
> >
> > If anyone wants to practice more here's a list of all open security problems
> > of games in sid, all easily NMUable:
> >
> > bzflag - DoS attack against server, #345245, no maintainer reaction since
> > 2005-12-29.
> > netpanzer - DoS attack against server, #318329, no maintainer reaction since
> > 2005-07-12(!)
> > scorched3d - Arbitrary code execution through format string attacks and
> > buffer overflows, plus DoS, all in the server, no maintainer
> > reaction since 2005-11-04
> > Cheers,
> > Moritz
> >
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>
> i gave bzflag a shot and exported todays sources from cvs. upstream
> seems to leave out bzflag version 2.0.5 and in the NEWS file, version
> 2.1.0 is the most recent entry. well, the sources compiled cleanly, but
> the binaries didn't work. i'll have a closer look on that project
> tomorrow, perhaps there's a newer version that compiles and is even
> playable ;)
>
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> to drain other elephants
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i built a debian package of bzflag 2.0.5 from cvs. but uuuuhm.... is it
possible and if so, how can i import it to the pkg-games repository?
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