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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2442-1 (openarena)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to openarena announced via advisory DSA 2442-1.
Insight
Insight
It has been discovered that spoofed getstatus UDP requests are being sent by attackers to servers for use with games derived from the Quake 3 engine (such as openarena). These servers respond with a packet flood to the victim whose IP address was impersonated by the attackers, causing a denial of service. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.5-5+squeeze2. For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.5-6.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your openarena packages.