VDB-38605 · CVE-2007-4638 · BID 25478

Blizzard Entertainment StarCraft Brood War up to 1.15.1 memory corruption

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A vulnerability has been found in Blizzard Entertainment StarCraft Brood War up to 1.15.1 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Blizzard Entertainment StarCraft Brood War 1.15.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed map, which triggers an out-of-bounds read during a minimap preview.

The weakness was published 08/31/2007 by Gynvael Coldwind (Website). The advisory is shared at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2007-4638 since 08/31/2007. 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.

It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

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

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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08/29/2007 🔍
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03/16/2015 +2754 days 🔍
10/29/2017 +958 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securityfocus.com
Researcher: Gynvael Coldwind
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2007-4638 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 25478 - Blizzard Entertainment StarCraft Brood War Minimap Preview Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/16/2015 12:18
Updated: 10/29/2017 11:59
Changes: 03/16/2015 12:18 (46), 10/29/2017 11:59 (7)
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