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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Denial of Service

Secunia Advisory: SA30050  
Release Date: 2008-05-06
Last Update: 2008-05-08

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

CVE reference:CVE-2008-2106 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when processing type 7 "stats" commands and can be exploited to cause the server to crash via a specially crafted "stats" packet.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.5. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Restrict access to game servers to trusted people only

Provided and/or discovered by:
Luigi Auriemma

Changelog:
2008-05-08: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/cod4statz-adv.txt



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