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Battlefield 1942 / Battlefield Vietnam Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA13368
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Release Date:
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2004-12-07
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Last Update:
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2004-12-20
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Battlefield 1942 1.x
Battlefield Vietnam 1.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2004-1220 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield Vietnam, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
When a client enters the "Multiplayer" menu, it sends a request to the master server for available servers. Each server then returns a reply containing information about the server.
However, an unspecified error exists in the client within the routine for handling these replies. This can be exploited via a malicious server by returning a specially crafted reply with an extremely high value in the "numplayers" field.
Successful exploitation causes clients to temporarily freeze and then crash.
Solution:
Apply patches.
Battlefield 1942:
Update to version 1.61b.
Battlefield Vietnam:
Update to version 1.21.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Luigi Auriemma
Changelog:
2004-12-20: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
EA Games:
http://www.eagames.com/official/battl...us/editorial/community_message_51.jsp
http://www.eagames.com/official/battl...editorial.jsp?src=community_update_28
Luigi Auriemma:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/bfcboom-adv.txt
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