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[DSA856] DSA-856-1 py2play

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-856-1 py2play

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Arc Riley discovered that py2play, a peer-to-peer network game engine,
is able to execute arbitrary code received from the p2p game network
it is connected to without any security checks.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain py2play packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.1.7-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.1.8-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your py2play package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-856
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2007 Michel Arboi

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