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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2442-2 openarena -- UDP traffic amplification

Date Reported:

31 Mar 2012

Affected Packages:

openarena

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 665656.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-5077.

More information:

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+squeeze3.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.5-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your openarena packages.