Quake3 security issue and non-responsive maintainer: Xavier Lamien

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Tue May 11 09:37:04 UTC 2010


On Tue, 11 May 2010 14:37:22 +0530, Rahul wrote:

> Hi
> 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/bugs/quake3
> 
> Quake 3 engine needs to be updated.  The current version has security
> issues and breaks multiplayer in a couple of Quake3 based games such as
> OpenArena.  The maintainer has not responded in bugzilla since March and
> has not responded to private email either.  I would like to invoke the
> fast track process.   Meanwhile, I will be much obliged if someone
> updates Quake 3 to the latest version available and push out updates for
> Fedora 13 and 12.
> 
> Rahul

Correction to:

| The maintainer has not responded in bugzilla since March and
| has not responded to private email either.

None of the currently open tickets have seen a reply by the maintainer,
and they date back to 2008 (including the CVEs).


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