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War Times Nickname Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA15363
Release Date: 2005-05-17
Last Update: 2005-05-26
Popularity: 5,585 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:War Times 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing nicknames and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by passing a nickname of 64 bytes.

Successful exploitation crashes a vulnerable game.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 1.03 and prior.

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