Live for Speed server pre-login packet denial of service
| lfs-prelogin-dos (36019) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Live for Speed server is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially-crafted per-login packet to cause the server to crash.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 3.5 |
| Access Vector: | Remote |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | Not Required |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 2.8 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Unavailable |
| Report Confidence: | Uncorroborated |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Live for Speed (0.5x12 or later), available from the Live for Speed Web site. See References.
References:
- Full-Disclosure Mailing List, Tue Aug 14 2007 - 17:02:39 CDT: Multiple vulnerabilities in Live for Speed 0.5X10.
- Live for Speed Web site: Live for Speed - Online racing simulator.
- Luigi Auriemma Advisory 14 Aug 2007: Multiple vulnerabilities in Live for Speed 0.5X10.
- BID-25327: Live For Speed Multiple Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2007-4426: Live for Speed (LFS) S1 and S2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) via (1) a certain 0x00 byte in a pre-login ID 3 packet, which triggers a NULL dereference; or (2) a pre-login ID 5 packet that lacks certain strings, which triggers an invalid pointer dereference.
- SA26569: Live for Speed Multiple Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-2975: Live for Speed Packets Handling Buffer Overflow and Denial of Service Issues
Platforms Affected:
- Scawen Roberts, Eric Bailey, Victor van Vlaardingen Live for Speed 0.5x10
Reported:
Aug 14, 2007
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