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TITLE:
Live for Speed Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27242

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27242/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Live for Speed 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/15488/

DESCRIPTION:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Live for Speed, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing
the skin name of other users in a multiplayer game. This can be
exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow on other connected
clients' systems by sending a specially crafted packet to the
server.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 0.5X10. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users access to multiplayer games.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/lfscbof-adv.txt

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