Blizzard Entertainment StarCraft Brood War up to 1.15.1 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Blizzard Entertainment StarCraft Brood War up to 1.15.1. It has been rated as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function. This manipulation causes memory corruption. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2007-4638. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (30540) and SecurityFocus (BID 25478†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Timelineinfo

08/29/2007 🔍
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03/16/2015 +2754 days 🔍
01/20/2025 +3598 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

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

CVE: CVE-2007-4638 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-4638
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-38605
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: 01/20/2025 22:37
Changes: 03/16/2015 12:18 (46), 10/29/2017 11:59 (7), 01/20/2025 22:37 (21)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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