Secunia Security Advisory - Doug Prostko has reported a vulnerability in Dopewars, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Dopewars REQUESTJET Message Denial of Service Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36961
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36961/
DESCRIPTION:
Doug Prostko has reported a vulnerability in Dopewars, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling REQUESTJET
messages and can be exploited to crash an affected server.
The vulnerability is reported in version 1.5.12. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Doug Prostko
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://dopewars.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dopewars?view=rev&revision=1033
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