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Cube Engine Buffer Overflow and Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA19110
Release Date: 2006-03-07
Last Update: 2006-03-14
Popularity: 5,476 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:CUBE Engine

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1100
CVE-2006-1101
CVE-2006-1102
CVE-2006-1103


Description:
Luigi Auriemma has reported some vulnerabilities in Cube Engine, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially to compromise a vulnerable system.

1) A boundary error exists within the "sgetstr()" function in both the client and the server when copying received data to a fixed-sized buffer. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and may allow arbitrary code execution.

2) A boundary error in the "sgetstr()" and "getint()" functions may be exploited to cause the client or the server to read unallocated memory, potentially causing a crash.

Note: A design error that causes game clients to exit whenever a malicious user specifies a non-existing map file has also been reported.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions 2005_08_29 and prior.

Solution:
Host network games only within trusted networks and do not connect to non-trusted game servers.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Luigi Auriemma

Changelog:
2006-03-13: Added CVE references.
2006-03-14: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/evilcube-adv.txt


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