Akella Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	11479
Class:	Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Oct 20 2004 12:00AM
Updated:	Oct 20 2004 12:00AM
Credit:	Discovery of this issue is credited to Luigi Auriemma <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable:	Akella Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II 1.56 Akella Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II 1.55 Akella Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II 1.4.51
Not Vulnerable:

Akella Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Akella Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II is reportedly affected by a remote buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to do sufficient bounds checking on user-supplied input.

An attacker can leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code on an affected computer with the privileges of a user running a vulnerable version of the game.

Akella Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The following exploit has been made available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/akellaPrivateersBountyExploit.zip

Akella Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Akella Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

References:

• Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II Home Page (Akella)
  
• [[email protected]: Buffer-overflow in Age of Sail II 1.04.151] (Luigi Auriemma )