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[SA12710] Judge Dredd Client Message Handling Format String Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Oct 04 2004 - 07:20:38 CDT

TITLE:
Judge Dredd Client Message Handling Format String Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12710

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12710/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/3990/

DESCRIPTION:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Judge Dredd: Dredd vs.
Death, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error in the
handling of messages from clients and can be exploited via specially
crafted messages containing format specifiers.

Successful exploitation requires that the client has access to a
match on the game server.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.01. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted clients access to matches on vulnerable game
servers.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma

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

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