People Can Fly Painkiller 1.3.1 Password memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in People Can Fly Painkiller 1.3.1. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part. Performing a manipulation of the argument Password results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2004-1745. Moreover, an exploit is present. It is recommended to add additional authentication.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in People Can Fly Painkiller 1.3.1. This affects an unknown code block. The manipulation of the argument Password with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Buffer overflow in Painkiller 1.3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long password.

The weakness was disclosed 08/24/2004 by Luigi Auriemma (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-1745 since 02/26/2005. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details and a public exploit are known.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is shared for download at aluigi.altervista.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

It is possible to mitigate the problem by adding an authentication mechanism.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (17101), Exploit-DB (422), SecurityFocus (BID 11029†), OSVDB (9173†) and Secunia (SA12367†). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Vendor

• People Can Fly

Name

• Painkiller

Version

• 1.3.1

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.7

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.7
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Exploitinginfo

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

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Authentication
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Timelineinfo

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Luigi Auriemma
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-1745 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-1745
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-22167
X-Force: 17101
SecurityFocus: 11029 - People Can Fly Painkiller Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 12367 - Painkiller Password Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 9173 - Painkiller Password Variable Remote Overflow

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

Entryinfo

Created: 04/14/2015 13:18
Updated: 08/02/2025 22:48
Changes: 04/14/2015 13:18 (59), 03/25/2019 20:09 (7), 08/02/2025 22:48 (20)
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