From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2007 - 10:17:04 CST

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TITLE:
Pioneers Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27522

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27522/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Pioneers (formerly gnocatan) 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/7175/

DESCRIPTION:
Bas Wijnen has reported a vulnerability in Pioneers, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a session object being deleted
while still in use. This can be exploited to crash the Pioneers
server by sending specially crafted data.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.11.3.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.11.3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Bas Wijnen

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449541

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