Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy message buffer overflow
| star-wars-message-bo (19959) |
Description:
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is vulnerable to a buffer overflow caused by improper bounds checking of user-supplied input when handling messages. By sending long messages using the say and tell commands, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the game server.
Platforms Affected:
- LucasArts, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy 1.011 and prior
Remedy:
No remedy available as of November 29, 2008.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- LucasArts Web site, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy at http://www.lucasarts.com/products/jediacademy/.
- Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, buffer-overflow during the visualization of big messages at http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/jamsgbof-adv.txt.
- BID-12977: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- CVE-2005-0984: Buffer overflow in the G_Printf function in Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy 1.011 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long message using commands such as (1) say and (2) tell.
- SA14809: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy Message Handling Buffer Overflow
Reported:
Apr 02, 2005
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