Soldner Secret Wars denial of service

soldner-secret-wars-dos (18749) The risk level is classified as LowLow Risk

Description:

Soldner Secret Wars is simulation designed military game. Soldner Secret Wars is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted UDP packet containing 1401 or more bytes to cause the socket to stop listenting, resulting in a denial of service.

Platforms Affected:

  • jowood, Soldner Secret Wars 30830 and prior
  • Microsoft, Windows 2000 SP3

Remedy:

No remedy available as of July 4, 2009.

Consequences:

Denial of Service

References:

  • BugTraq Mailing List, Tue Jan 04 2005 - 12:57:43 CST , Socket termination, format string and XSS in Soldner Secret Wars 30830 at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-01/0012.html.
  • Soldner Secret Wars Web site, Secret Wars Gamesite at http://soldner.jowood.com.
  • BID-12162: Soldner Secret Wars Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
  • CVE-2005-0279: Soldner Secret Wars 30830 and earlier does not properly handle the message too long socket error, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (socket termination) via a long UDP packet.
  • SA13716: Soldner Secret Wars Multiple Vulnerabilities

Reported:

Jan 04, 2005

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