Secunia Security Advisory - Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Star Wars Battlefront II, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Star Wars Battlefront II Player Handling Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35988
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35988/
DESCRIPTION:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Star Wars Battlefront
II, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial
of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling guests
joining a game as the same player can occupy up to seven slots while
this is not supported by the game. This can be exploited to crash the
game by joining the server with seven guests twice.
SOLUTION:
Restrict access to games, allowing only trusted users to join.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/swbf2seven-adv.txt
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