Re: Half Life dedicated server Patch

[Shaun Meckler <shaun () TRUCKMASTER COM>]

Patrick Oonk wrote:
> Someone pointed me to an announcement of a new Half Life patch which
> should be released next week and should fix the vulnerability described
> at http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1799
>
> New features and fixes include:
> - Linux security issue resolved. <---------------------

  The patch was released earlier today. The linuxreadme.txt file
included in the release noted this as the only security related change:

- Rcon buffer overflow fixed.

It does not make any mention of the format string bug as mentioned in
'Tamandua Sekure Labs Security Advisory 2000-01'