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0verkill Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA20551
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Release Date:
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2006-06-09
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Last Update:
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2006-06-15
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Popularity:
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5,850 views
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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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Unpatched
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| Software: | 0verkill 0.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-2971
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Description:
Federico Fazzi has discovered a vulnerability in 0verkill, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is cause due to an integer underflow error in "recv_packet()" within the handling of a received UDP packet. This can be exploited to cause out-of-bounds memory access which crashes the server process via a UDP packet that is smaller than 12 bytes in size.
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 0.16. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Host network games only when connected to trusted networks.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Federico Fazzi
Changelog:
2006-06-15: Added CVE reference.
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