Soldat message denial of service

soldat-message-dos (36230)

Medium Risk

Description:

Soldat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper handling of messages. By sending an overly long message, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash the game server and any connected clients.

*CVSS:

Base Score:	5
Access Vector:	Network
Access Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial
Temporal Score:	4.3
Exploitability:	Proof-of-Concept
Remediation Level:	Unavailable
Report Confidence:	Uncorroborated

Consequences:

Denial of Service

Remedy:

No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.

References:

• Full-Disclosure Mailing List, Thu Aug 23 2007 - 18:28:39 CDT: Multiple denial of service in Soldat 1.4.2/2.6.2.
• Soldat Web site: The official Soldat home page.
• BID-25426: Soldat Multiple Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
• CVE-2007-4531: Soldat game server 1.4.2 and earlier, and dedicated server 2.6.2 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a client denial of service (crash) via (1) a long string to the file transfer port or (2) a long chat message, or (3) a server denial of service (continuous beep and slowdown) via a string containing many 0x07 or other control characters to the file transfer port.
• SA26564: Soldat Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Platforms Affected:

• Michal Marcinkowski Soldat client 1.4.2 and prior
• Michal Marcinkowski Soldat server 2.6.2 and prior
• Microsoft Windows Vista

Reported:

Aug 24, 2007

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