Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-0467 - Buffer Denial Of Service vulnerability in Pioneers 0.9.49

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
pioneers
nessus

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in Pioneers (formerly gnocatan) before 0.9.49 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via long chat messages.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Pioneers
1

Nessus

NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-964.NASL
descriptionA problem has been discovered in gnocatan, the computer version of the settlers of Catan boardgame, that can lead the server and other clients to exit via an assert, and hence does not permit the execution of arbitrary code. The game has been renamed into Pioneers after the release of Debian sarge.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id22830
published2006-10-14
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/22830
titleDebian DSA-964-1 : gnocatan - buffer overflow
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-964. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(22830);
  script_version("1.18");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:20");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-0467");
  script_bugtraq_id(16429);
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"964");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-964-1 : gnocatan - buffer overflow");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"A problem has been discovered in gnocatan, the computer version of the
settlers of Catan boardgame, that can lead the server and other
clients to exit via an assert, and hence does not permit the execution
of arbitrary code. The game has been renamed into Pioneers after the
release of Debian sarge."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350237"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-964"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the gnocatan and pioneers packages.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.1-5woody3.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8.1.59-1sarge1."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnocatan");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/02/03");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/10/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/01/28");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"gnocatan-client", reference:"0.6.1-5woody3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"gnocatan-data", reference:"0.6.1-5woody3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"gnocatan-help", reference:"0.6.1-5woody3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"gnocatan-server", reference:"0.6.1-5woody3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"gnocatan-ai", reference:"0.8.1.59-1sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"gnocatan-client", reference:"0.8.1.59-1sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"gnocatan-help", reference:"0.8.1.59-1sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"gnocatan-meta-server", reference:"0.8.1.59-1sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"gnocatan-server-console", reference:"0.8.1.59-1sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"gnocatan-server-data", reference:"0.8.1.59-1sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"gnocatan-server-gtk", reference:"0.8.1.59-1sarge1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");