Hired Team: Trial format string
| hired-team-format-string (18083) |  High Risk |
Description:
Hired Team: Trial is vulnerable to a format string attack, caused by a vulnerability in the game console. A remote attacker could join a game and send a specially-crafted message containing format characters '%n%n%n' to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code on the system.
Consequences:
Gain Access
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Mon Nov 15 2004 - 12:18:50 CST : Multiple vulnerabilities in Hired Team: Trial (Shine engine).
- Hired Team: Trial Download Web page: DOWNLOADS.
- Hired Team: Trial Web page: Hired Team: Trial.
- BID-11683: New Media Generation Hired Team: Trial Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2004-1523: Format string vulnerability in the game console in Hired Team: Trial 2.0 and earlier and 2.200 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via format string specifiers in a message.
- SA13207: Hired Team: Trial Multiple Vulnerabilities
Platforms Affected:
- New Media Generation Hired Team: Trial 2.0/2.200 and prior
Reported:
Nov 15, 2004
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