3DO Army Men Real Time Strategy Game Remote Format String Vulnerability

BID:11679

Info

3DO Army Men Real Time Strategy Game Remote Format String Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11679
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2004-1522
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Nov 15 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 08:06AM
Credit: Luigi Auriemma <[email protected]> is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable: 3DO Army Men Real Time Strategy Game 1.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

3DO Army Men Real Time Strategy Game Remote Format String Vulnerability

Reportedly a remote format string vulnerability affects 3DO Army Men Real Time Strategy Game. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input prior to utilizing it in a formatted string function.

An attacker may leverage this issue to crash the affected server and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user that activated the vulnerable game server.

Exploit / POC

3DO Army Men Real Time Strategy Game Remote Format String Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] &lt;mailto:[email protected]&gt;.

The following proof of concept designed to crash the game has been provided:

Join a server using the nickname %n%n%n, it will crash immediately.

Solution / Fix

3DO Army Men Real Time Strategy Game Remote Format String 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]>.

References

3DO Army Men Real Time Strategy Game Remote Format String Vulnerability

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