From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Dec 13 2004 - 07:50:14 CST

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TITLE:
Codename Eagle Empty UDP Datagram Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13423

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13423/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Codename Eagle 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4372/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the communication
handling. This can be exploited to cause a socket to become
unreachable by sending an empty UDP datagram.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.42. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Host games on a trusted network only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma

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

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