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TITLE:
Metamod-P "safevoid_vsnprintf()" Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24738

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24738/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Metamod-P 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/13847/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Metamod-P, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the
"safevoid_vsnprintf()" function and potentially can be exploited to
crash a server via an overly long string in a meta command.

The vulnerability reportedly only affects Metamod-P on Windows
systems.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.19p30.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=498782&group_id=135860

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