Description
Pioneers (formerly gnocatan) before 0.11.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering a delete operation while the Session object is still being used, as demonstrated by causing a "Broken pipe" error.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | pioneers | 0.11.3-2 | — |
| Debian 13 | pioneers | 0.11.3-2 | — |
| Debian 12 | pioneers | 0.11.3-2 | — |
| Debian 5.0 | pioneers | 0.11.2-2+lenny1 | DTSA-89-1 |
Advisories 1
- DTSA-89-1 pioneers - remote denial of service Debian Security (DSA / DLA) · Mar 9, 2026
References
- GLSA-200711-20 vendor-advisory
- 27522 third-party-advisory
- 27646 third-party-advisory
- 26391 vdb-entry
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449541
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1791176&group_id=5095&atid=305095
- 1019024 vdb-entry
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198807