23549 : CrossFire oldsocketmode Remote Overflow DoS
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10 months ago

Percent Complete

35%

Disclosure

Feb 27, 2006

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Feb 27, 2006

Solution

Unknown

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Description

(Description Provided by CVE) : Buffer overflow in socket/request.c in CrossFire before 1.9.0, when oldsocketmode is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute code by sending the server a large request.

Classification

Attack Type: Denial of Service, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Availability

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.9.0 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

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References

Bugtraq ID: 16883
Secunia Advisory ID: 19044 19194 19785
CVE ID: 2006-1010 (see also: NVD)
ISS X-Force ID: 24932
FrSIRT Advisory: ADV-2006-0760
Other Advisory URL: http://aluigi.altervista.org/poc.htm
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-11.xml
Generic Exploit URL: http://aluigi.altervista.org/poc/crossfirebof.zip
Vendor URL: http://crossfire.real-time.com/index.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1001

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