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Secunia Advisory SA23963

Nexuiz "gamedir" Information Disclosure and Data Manipulation
Secunia Advisory SA23963
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2007-01-31
Last Update 2007-02-05
   
Popularity 7,456 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Manipulation of data
Exposure of sensitive information
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Software:
Nexuiz 2.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-0657 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Nexuiz, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information or manipulate data.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the client when handling the "gamedir" command. This can be exploited by a malicious game server to read arbitrary files and write to certain files on a user's system.

The vulnerability affects Nexuiz client 2.2.2.


Solution
Update to version 2.2.3.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
http://www.alientrap.org/devwiki/index.php?n=Nexuiz.Patch

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