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TITLE:
Chaser Nickname Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14506

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14506/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Chaser 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4745/

DESCRIPTION:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Chaser, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is cause due to a boundary error in the handling of
nicknames. This can be exploited to crash all connected clients by
joining with an overly long nickname.

This can also be exploited to crash a vulnerable server running in
game mode.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.50 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Host games on trusted networks only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/chasercool-adv.txt

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