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Secunia Advisory SA16855

Py2Play Game Engine Arbitrary Python Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA16855
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Release Date 2005-09-19
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact System access
Where From local network
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Py2Play 0.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2005-2875 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Arc Riley has reported a vulnerability in Py2Play, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused to a design error in the handling of serialized Python objects (pickles) sent from other clients. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary Python code in a network game that uses Py2Play, via specially crafted classes.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.1.7. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
The vulnerability has been fixed in the CVS repositories by disabling network support.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Arc Riley

Original Advisory
Gentoo Bugzilla:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103524

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