16619 : War Times Nickname Overflow DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2005-05-17	2005-05-17

Description

A remote overflow exists in War Times European Frontline. The War Times fails to properly bounds check user-supplied network data prior to copying it into a fixed-size memory buffer. With a specially crafted request containing a nickname of 64 bytes, the max data block size, an attacker can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a loss of availability.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity, Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Public

Solution

Currently, there are no known upgrades, patches, or workarounds available to correct this issue.

Products

Legend Studios S.L.

War Times European Frontline

1.03

References

Security Tracker: 1013981
Bugtraq ID: 13652
Secunia Advisory ID: 15363
CVE ID: 2005-1718 (see also: NVD)
Other Advisory URL: http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/wartimesboom-adv.txt
Generic Exploit URL: http://aluigi.altervista.org/poc/wartimesboom.zip
Vendor URL: http://www.lsgames.com

Credit

Luigi Auriemma - aluigiautistici.org - http://aluigi.altervista.org

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-05-26 | Disagree?

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