On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 20:20 +0100, Christian Ohm wrote:

> Debian Squeeze currently has version 2.3.4 (Ubuntu as well), which is a bit
> broken. Not sure if it should be removed completely though. Maybe just add a
> message like "this version is probably outdated, get the current one from
> wz2100.net or backports.org" (Pabs: do you maintain the backports as well?) on
> the quit screen and package description.

I do maintain the backport as well. Haven't done any uploads recently
since I wanted to get squeeze in shape.

> I've made a branch with proposed fixes (that don't affect sync) for it at
> http://gitorious.org/~cybersphinx/warzone2100/warzone-cybersphinx/commits/2.3.4_maint
> (the first two fix the crashes with unicode, the last a memory corruption).
> That should fix the worst problems; armor etc. could only be fixed in a new
> branch that can't play with normal 2.3.4, I don't think anyone wants to
> actually maintain that.

Hmm. According to buginator/vexed, there are some other issues with
2.3.4 that are potentially exploitable remotely:

http://paste.debian.net/plain/100261

Not sure if the 3 fixes you suggest are relevant to Debian stable:

cab4ec0e1e7c4b94d1269428ac29c7c458e6b35d seems to be a UI thing?

1d97d98dbb6e3b8b6113d16ac01bc98b3d3405df same

3c610c7b8d0affd1d0031f7d73038aabd4c48a5f not sure which context causes
memory corruption - is that remotely exploitable?

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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