Quake3 security issue and non-responsive maintainer: Xavier Lamien

Mamoru Tasaka mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Tue May 11 09:56:16 UTC 2010


Michael Schwendt wrote, at 05/11/2010 06:37 PM +9:00:
> 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).

Xavier responsed to rubygem-json related bug recently:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589801

So I guess trying to re-contact him is better.

Regards,
Mamoru


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