Sauerbraten Engine Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA19111
Release Date: 2006-03-07
Last Update: 2006-03-13
Popularity: 5,351 views

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

Software:Sauerbraten Game Engine

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


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

1) Some errors in the "sgetstr()", "sgetstr()" and "getint()" functions may be exploited to cause a DoS and may allow arbitrary code execution.

For more information:
SA19110

2) It is possible to cause the server to access unallocated memory and crash, when a client did not properly terminate its connection from the server.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 2006_02_28 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.

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

Other References:
SA19110:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19110/


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