Secunia Security Advisory - Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Skulltag, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Skulltag Huffman Decompression Heap Overflow Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26549
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26549/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access, DoS
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Skulltag 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/9497/
DESCRIPTION:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Skulltag, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the
huffman decompression algorithm. This can be exploited to cause a
heap-based buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted UDP
datagram to a vulnerable server.
The vulnerability is reported in version 0.97d-beta4.1. Other
versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Use in trusted network environments only.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/skulltaghof-adv.txt
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