gMotor2 IDs denial of service
| gmotor-ids-dos (36094) |  Low Risk |
Description:
The gMotor2 engine and multiple games implementing the affected engine, including rFactor, are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of data packets with IDs equal to 0x30 or 0x38 and 0x60 or 0x68. By sending a specially-crafted packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash the server.
Platforms Affected:
- Image Space Incorporated, gMotor2 engine
- Image Space Incorporated, rFactor 1.250 and prior
Remedy:
For rFactor:
Upgrade to the latest version of rFactor (1.255D or later), available from the rFactor Web site. See References.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Thu Sep 27 2007 - 17:06:57 CDT , Re: Multiple vulnerabilities in rFactor 1.250 at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-09/0393.html.
- Luigi Auriemma Advisory: 19 Sep 2007, Multiple vulnerabilities in the gMotor2 engine at http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/gmotor2-adv.txt.
- Luigi Auriemma Web page: ADVISORIES, Multiple vulnerabilities in rFactor 1.250 at http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/rfactorx-adv.txt.
- rFactor Web site, rFactor at http://www.rfactor.net/index.php?page=features.
- BID-25358: gMotor2 Game Engine Multiple Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2007-4445: Image Space rFactor 1.250 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via (1) an ID 0x30 packet, (2) an ID 0x38 packet, and an invalid 13-bit integer in (3) an ID 0x60 packet and (4) an ID 0x68 packet; and a denial of service (UDP port block) via (5) an ID 0x20 packet and (6) an ID 0x28 packet.
- SA26526: rFactor Multiple Vulnerabilities
Reported:
Aug 18, 2007
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