|
Lithtech Engine UDP Datagram Denial of Service Vulnerability
|
|
Secunia Advisory:
|
SA13446
|
|
|
Release Date:
|
2004-12-14
|
|
Last Update:
|
2005-02-15
|
|
Popularity:
|
5,685 views
|
|
|
Critical:
|
Moderately critical
|
|
Impact:
|
DoS
|
|
Where:
|
From remote
|
|
Solution Status:
|
Unpatched
|
|
| Software: | Lithtech engine
|
|
|
Subscribe:
|
Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities 
|
|
| CVE reference: | CVE-2004-1395
|
|
Description:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Lithtech Engine, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the communication handling. This can be exploited to cause a vulnerable server to stop processing UDP traffic by sending a UDP datagram of size 0 or any size between 8193 and 12280.
Solution:
Host games on a trusted network only.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Luigi Auriemma
Changelog:
2005-02-15: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/lithsock-adv.txt
|
|
|
Track this Secunia Advisory
|
Customers of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence solutions will automatically receive updates when new information regarding this advisory is released.
Read more about our Vulnerability Intelligence solutions and what they can do for you and your company.
|
|
|
About this Secunia Advisory
|
Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.
Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.
|
