[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: alienarena-7.33-2.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-6179
2010-04-09 03:39:07
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Name        : alienarena
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 7.33
Release     : 2.fc13
URL         : http://red.planetarena.org/
Summary     : Multiplayer retro sci-fi deathmatch game
Description :
Alien Arena 2009 is an online deathmatch game with over 30 levels, seven modes
of play, loads of mutators, built-in bots, multiple player characters and weapons
(with alt-fire modes).

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Update Information:

Fixes the following security issues:    - By supplying various invalid
parameters to the download command, it is possible to cause a DoS condition by
causing the server to crash. A path ending in . or / will crash on Linux.
Supplying a negative offset will cause a crash on all platforms.  - Fix buffer
overflow identified in R1Q2 client code.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #577810 - alienarena: Two security issues in Quake II 3.20 (Server) (applicable to alienarena)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577810
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update alienarena' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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