----------------------------------------------------------------------

Want a new IT Security job?

Vacant positions at Secunia:
http://secunia.com/secunia_vacancies/

----------------------------------------------------------------------

TITLE:
War Times Nickname Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15363

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15363/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
War Times 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/5106/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing
nicknames and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by passing
a nickname of 64 bytes.

Successful exploitation crashes a vulnerable game.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 1.03 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users access to games hosted on a vulnerable game
server.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma

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

----------------------------------------------------------------------

About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/

Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories
http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org

----------------------------------------------------------------------