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Empire Server "client_cmd()" Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA20094
Release Date: 2006-05-15
Last Update: 2006-07-20
Popularity: 4,907 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Empire Server 4.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-2393


Description:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Empire Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to boundary error in the "client_cmd()" function when adding text strings sent by a user to the "player->client" buffer. This can be exploited to cause an out-of-bounds memory access, which crashes the server.

The vulnerability has been reported in 4.3.2. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in the CVS repositories.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Luigi Auriemma

Changelog:
2006-07-20: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/empiredos-adv.txt
http://empserver.cvs.sourceforge.net/...login.c?revision=1.38&view=markup


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