From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Sep 20 2004 - 06:22:04 CDT

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TITLE:
Lords of the Realm III Username Handling Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12589

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12589/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Lords of the Realm III 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/3922/

DESCRIPTION:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Lords of the Realm
III, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of
usernames and can be exploited by connecting to a vulnerable server
and supplying an overly long username.

Successful exploitation crashes the application.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.01 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Host only games on trusted networks.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/lotr3boom-adv.txt

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