xoverkill crashes due to buffer overflow when sending long chat messages.

[Jannich Brendle]

Binary package hint: overkill

Ubuntu version: 9.04
package: overkill version 0.16-13

When a user tries to send a chat message longer than MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH (70 chars), xoverkill crashes.

A patch to fix the problem is attached.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package overkill - 0.16-13ubuntu1

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overkill (0.16-13ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Add dpatch patchsys:
    - debian/control: Add build-dependency on dpatch
    - debian/rules: Update for dpatch
    - Add debian/patches directory
  * Apply patches to fix four crashing bugs. All patches thanks to Jannich Brendle:
    - ubuntu_01_server_action_crash.dpatch: Patch to fix overkill-server crashes
      when anything happens in the game (LP: #406046)
    - ubuntu_02_overkill-test-server_segfault.dpatch: Patch to fix segfault in
      overkill-test-server due to invalid memory allocation (LP: #406000)
    - ubuntu_03_chat_buffer_overflow.dpatch: Patch to fix buffer overflow when
      sending chat messages over the specified limit (LP: #408557)
    - ubuntu_04_console.c_segfault.dpatch: Patch to fix overkill crashing on
      startup due to the code trying to copy 16 bytes into a 8 byte array (LP: #297913)

 -- David Futcher <email address hidden> Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:42:27 +0100