2825 : monopd Remote DoS
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8 months ago

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Disclosure

Nov 14, 2003

Discovery

Unknown

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Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

Description

monopd has a flaw that allows a malicious user to cause a denial of service. Under specific conditions, the user can send a specially crafted message during a game to cause excessive CPU and network resource consumption.

Classification

Unknown or Incomplete

Technical

Requirement:
To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker would have to be part of a running game and send a crafted message during very specific game status conditions.

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.8.3 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

UNIXcode.org
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monopd
Watch-list
0.7.x
0.8
0.8.1
0.8.2

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