Cor Entertainment Alien Arena 2006 5.00 q_shared.c com_sprintf denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Cor Entertainment Alien Arena 2006 5.00 and classified as problematic. This impacts the function com_sprintf of the file q_shared.c. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2006-1147. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Cor Entertainment Alien Arena 2006 5.00 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function com_sprintf of the file q_shared.c. 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:

The Com_sprintf function in q_shared.c in Alien Arena 2006 Gold Edition 5.00 does not properly NULL terminate certain long strings, which allows remote attackers (possibly authenticated) to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long skin, weapon, or model name.

The weakness was disclosed 03/07/2006 by Luigi Auriemma (Website). The advisory is shared at vupen.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-1147 since 03/10/2006. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. A single authentication is necessary for exploitation. Technical details and also a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by Luigi Auriemma and been published before and not just after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at aluigi.altervista.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 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 (25201), Exploit-DB (1564), SecurityFocus (BID 17028†), OSVDB (23749†) and Secunia (SA19144†). The entries VDB-29136 and VDB-29135 are pretty similar. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Luigi Auriemma
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: vupen.com⛔
Researcher: Luigi Auriemma
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-1147 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-1147
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-29137
X-Force: 25201 - Alien Arena com_sprintf denial of service
SecurityFocus: 17028 - Alien Arena 2006 GE Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 19144 - Alien Arena 2006 Gold Edition Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 23749 - Alien Arena 2006 Gold Edition Com_sprintf() Function Long Skin DoS
Vupen: ADV-2006-0882

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

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 09/10/2017 10:41
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (60), 09/10/2017 10:41 (12)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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