Handling security issues?

[Bruno Kleinert]

This one time, at band camp, Bruno Kleinert wrote:
> 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 ;)
> > 
> > -- 
> > Among elephants it's not considered cool nor in any good taste
> > 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?
> 
> -- 
> Among elephants it's not considered cool nor in any good taste
> to drain other elephants
> 
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*ARGH* me stupid!!! *selfslap*. i meant: is it possible and if so,
how can i import it to the pkg-games repository without svn-buildpackge.

sorry for spamming around :(

-- 
Among elephants it's not considered cool nor in any good taste
to drain other elephants