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TITLE:
NASCAR Racing Empty UDP Datagram Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20947

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20947/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
NASCAR Racing 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/10771/
NASCAR Racing 2003 Season 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/10773/
NASCAR Racing 2002 Season 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/10772/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of
empty (zero bytes) UDP datagrams. This can be exploited to cause the
affected application to enter an infinite loop and consume 100% CPU
resources.

The vulnerability has been reported in NASCAR Racing 4.1.3.1.6,
NASCAR Racing 2002 Season 1.1.0.2, and NASCAR Racing 2003 Season
1.2.0.1. Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Only play games in trusted networks.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma

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

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