45531 : First Encounter Assault Recon (F.E.A.R.) UCONN PB_U Packet Remote Format String
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2007-10-01

Keywords

UDP port 27888

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2007-5247" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Multiple format string vulnerabilities in the Monolith Lithtech engine, as used by First Encounter Assault Recon (F.E.A.R.) 1.08 and earlier, when Punkbuster (PB) is enabled, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via format string specifiers in (1) a PB_Y packet to the YPG server on UDP port 27888 or (2) a PB_U packet to UCON on UDP port 27888, different vectors than CVE-2004-1500. NOTE: this issue might be in Punkbuster itself, but there are insufficient details to be certain.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access, Local / Remote, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2007-5247 (see also: NVD)
ISS X-Force ID: 36900
Related OSVDB ID: 45530
Other Advisory URL: http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/fearfspb-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/fearfspb.zip
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3197
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-10/0015.html

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-10-08 | Disagree?

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