Subject: Re: xpilot (games/xpilot) vulnerability.
To: Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu>
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/12/2002 15:53:15
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:24:29AM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> While poking around the xpilot.org site (curious about their MS-WINDOWS
> support, actually; (^&), I noticed a remark that the game server (xpilots)
> has a security vulnerability.  (It was fixed a while back, but our package
> is a bit crufty, predating the fix.)

[...]

> At the very least, the package auditing ``vulnerabilities'' file should
> probably be updated.
>
> I don't have any more specific information on the problem

I updated the package, and added a line to the vulnerabilities file
(see http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/4534).

Thanks for the note,
 Thomas

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