Pioneers: Multiple Denials of Service

Pioneers: Multiple Denials of Service Two Denial of Service vulnerabilities were discovered in Pioneers. pioneers 2007-11-14 2007-11-29 198807 remote 0.11.3-r1 0.11.3-r1

Pioneers (formerly gnocatan) is a clone of the popular board game "The Settlers of Catan".

Roland Clobus discovered that the Pioneers server may free sessions objects while they are still in use, resulting in access to invalid memory zones (CVE-2007-5933). Bas Wijnen discovered an error when closing connections which can lead to a failed assertion (CVE-2007-6010).

A remote attacker could send specially crafted data to the vulnerable server, resulting in a Denial of Service.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Pioneers users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=games-board/pioneers-0.11.3-r1"

CVE-2007-5933 CVE-2007-6010 rbu p-y p-y