[mohaa] MOHAA linux server with potential exploit fix.

[Mohaa Admin (vandrosthagen.net)]

Ryan,

Placed it on my server, and the bug is disapeared, i will keep my server a
close look for a couple of days to see what happens. Thanks for the fast
response.

Oohh yeah if you want to test anything my server ip is : 217.19.28.175

Regards
Quint

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus at clutteredmind.org>
To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 06:28
Subject: [mohaa] MOHAA linux server with potential exploit fix.


>
> Ok, I looked into the MOHAA buffer overflow, and I _think_ that I have a
>   fix. I say "think" because I'm screwing with this from a hotel room
> over ssh and don't have a MOHAA client installed to test locally, or
> even MOHAA installed remotely to make sure the server will even start up.
>
> In short, please consider this to be an extremely unstable beta until
> proven otherwise.
>
>     http://icculus.org/betas/mohaa/mohaa-lnxded-07222004.tar.bz2
>
> Download, unpack, replace mohaa_lnxded and fgameded.so in your server
> installation.
>
> Please note that this build was built with gcc3, and will need an
> external support library. Explanation of what to do if you get an error
> about "libstdc++" or something instead of a running server is here:
>
>     https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1801
>
> If someone can confirm that this build does indeed close the exploit and
> doesn't generally suck, I'll do the same for Spearhead, too.
>
> Thanks,
> --ryan.
>
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