Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200802-02 (doomsday)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200802-02. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

CVE-2007-4644

The CVE-2007-4644 format-string vulnerability affects the Doomsday (deng) client, specifically in Cl_GetPackets() in cl_main.c for Doomsday 1.9.0-beta5.1 and earlier. The flaw allows a remote attacker sending PSV_CONSOLE_TEXT messages to cause arbitrary code execution. Reports (NVD, GLSA 200802-0...