Overkill recv_packet() denial of service
| overkill-recvpacket-dos (27028) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Overkill is vulnerable to a denial of service caused by an integer underflow in the recv_packet() function. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted UDP packet smaller than 12 bytes to cause an out-of-bounds memory access causing the server to crash.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.
References:
- Overkill Web site: 0VERKILL - hell in ASCII.
- BID-18353: 0verkill UDP Datagram Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2006-2971: Integer overflow in the recv_packet function in 0verkill 0.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a UDP packet with fewer than 12 bytes, which results in a long length value to the crc32 function.
- OSVDB ID: 26029: 0verkill recv_packet() Function UDP Handling Overflow DoS
- SA20551: 0verkill Denial of Service Vulnerability
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-2245: 0verkill recv_packet() UDP Packet Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- Overkill Overkill 0.16
Reported:
Jun 09, 2006
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