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TITLE:
Skulltag NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31427

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31427/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Skulltag 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/9497/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference when
processing command 29. This can be exploited to crash a server by
sending a specially crafted packet.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.97d2-RC6.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.97d2-RC6.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Luigi Auriemma:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/skulltagod-adv.txt

Skulltag:
http://skulltag.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=14716

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