Tenes Empanadas Graciela nickname off-by-one denial of service
| teg-nickname-offbyone-dos (25165) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Tenes Empanadas Graciela (TEG) is vulnerable to a denial of service attack, caused by an off-by-one vulnerability. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the game server to crash by launching two clients with identical 50 character nicknames.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Tenes Empanadas Graciela (0.11.2 or later), available from the Tenes Empanadas Graciela Web site. See References..
References:
- Luigi Auriemma Advisory 03 Mar 2006: Off-by-one in Tenes Empanadas Graciela 0.11.1.
- Tenes Empanadas Graciela Web page: TEG - Main.
- BID-16982: Tenes Empanadas Graciela Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2006-1150: Buffer overflow in Tenes Empanadas Graciela (TEG) 0.11.1, automatically appends an _ (underscore) to the end of duplicate nicknames, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by creating multiple users with long, identical nicknames, which triggers an off-by-one error.
- SA19134: Tenes Empanadas Graciela Denial of Service Vulnerability
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-0846: Tenes Empanadas Graciela Nickname Handling Denial of Service Issue
Platforms Affected:
- Ricardo Quesada TEG 0.11.1 and prior
Reported:
Mar 03, 2006
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