Chaser memory denial of service
| chaser-memory-dos (15031) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Chaser is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. A remote attacker can send a specially-crafted packet to the game server causing the program to read unallocated memory resulting in a system crash.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
No remedy available as of May 1, 2013.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Tue Feb 03 2004 - 15:22:51 CST : Remote crash of Chaser game <= 1.50.
- Chaser Web site: CHASER - JoWoodD Productions Software AG.
- BID-9567: Cauldron Chaser Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2004-0247: The client and server of Chaser 1.50 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash via exception) via a UDP packet with a length field that is greater than the actual data length, which causes Chaser to read unexpected memory.
- OSVDB ID: 6612: Chaser Client/Server UDP Packet DoS
Platforms Affected:
- Cauldron Chaser 1.50 and prior
Reported:
Feb 03, 2004
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