Xfire 1.6.4 denial of service

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A vulnerability has been found in Xfire 1.6.4 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Xfire 1.64 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client application crash) via a long string to UDP port 25777.

The weakness was published 10/18/2006 (Website). The advisory is shared at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-5391 since 10/18/2006. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed by n00b in Perl and been published even before and not after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (29602) and Exploit-DB (2571).

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: n00b
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: milw0rm.com⛔
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-5391 (🔍)
X-Force: 29602 - Xfire UDP packet denial of service
SecurityFocus: 20548 - XFire Packet Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

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Created: 03/12/2015 22:21
Updated: 08/06/2018 07:26
Changes: 03/12/2015 22:21 (55), 08/06/2018 07:26 (5)
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