America's Army and America's Army Special Forces bell characters denial of service

americasarmy-bell-dos (36898) The risk level is classified as MediumMedium Risk

Description:

America's Army and America's Army Special Forces are vulnerable to a denial of service. If Punkbuster is enabled, a remote attacker could send bell characters to the server to cause the server to freeze.

*CVSS:

Base Score: 4.3
  Access Vector: Network
  Access Complexity: Medium
  Authentication: None
  Confidentiality Impact: None
  Integrity Impact: None
  Availability Impact: Partial
 
Temporal Score: 3.5
  Exploitability: Unproven
  Remediation Level: Unavailable
  Report Confidence: Uncorroborated

Consequences:

Denial of Service

Remedy:

No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.

References:

  • AMERICA'S ARMY: SPECIAL FORCES Web page: America's Army and America's Army Special Forces.
  • Full-Disclosure Mailing List, Mon Oct 01 2007 - 14:31:38 CDT: Unexploitable buffer-overflow in America's Army 2.8.2 through PB.
  • CVE-2007-4443: The UCC dedicated server for the Unreal engine, possibly 2003 and 2004, on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (continuous beep and server slowdown) via a string containing many 0x07 characters in (1) a request to the images/ directory, (2) the Content-Type field, (3) a HEAD request, and possibly other unspecified vectors.
  • CVE-2007-5250: The Windows dedicated server for the Unreal engine, as used by America's Army and America's Army Special Forces 2.8.2 and earlier, when Punkbuster (PB) is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server hang) via packets containing 0x07 characters or other unspecified invalid characters. NOTE: this issue may overlap CVE-2007-4443. NOTE: this issue might be in Punkbuster itself, but there are insufficient details to be certain.
  • SA26506: Unreal Engine Web Server Logging Denial of Service
  • SA27015: America`s Army Special Forces Unreal Engine Denial Of Service

Platforms Affected:

  • America's Army 2008 America's Army 2.8.2

Reported:

Oct 01, 2007

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