Secunia Security Advisory - Luigi Auriemma has reported two vulnerabilities in CellFactor: Revolution, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
CellFactor: Revolution Format String and Buffer Overflow
Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26765
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26765/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
CellFactor: Revolution 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/15667/
DESCRIPTION:
Luigi Auriemma has reported two vulnerabilities in CellFactor:
Revolution, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
1) A boundary error within the processing of type 0x21, 0x22, and
0x23 message packets can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.
2) A format string error can be exploited via a specially-crafted
client nickname containing format string specifiers.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.03. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Host and play games on trusted networks only.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/cellfucktor-adv.txt
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