Secunia Security Advisory - Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in TinCat, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
TinCat Player Logging Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14767
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14767/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
TinCat 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/4855/
DESCRIPTION:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in TinCat, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when logging
players. This can be exploited to cause buffer overflow by supplying
an overly long string and may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 2.0.28.
SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.0.28.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/tincat2bof-adv.txt
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