Valve Software Half-Life Dedicated Server Vulnerability

BID:1799

Info

Valve Software Half-Life Dedicated Server Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 1799
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2000-0968
CVE-2000-0969
Remote: Yes
Local: Yes
Published: Oct 16 2000 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 19 2015 09:05AM
Credit: Credit for the vulnerability discovery presumably lies with ADM.The forensic work which discovered this problem was performed by Mark Cooper. Patrick Oonk <[email protected]> posted information regarding the fix status to Bugtraq. This advisory was drafted
Vulnerable: Valve Software Half-Life Dedicated Server 3.1
- Caldera OpenLinux 2.4
- Conectiva Linux 5.1
- Debian Linux 2.3
- S.u.S.E. Linux 7.0
- Slackware Linux 7.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Valve Software Half-Life Dedicated Server Vulnerability

The Half-Life server is a game server written to act as a centralized server for players of the Half-Life multi-player online video game. Certain versions of this server software for Linux ship with a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in the changelevel rcon command and does not require a valid rcon password. The overflow appears to exist after the logging function.

Exploit / POC

Valve Software Half-Life Dedicated Server Vulnerability

This problem is actively being exploited in the the wild although SecurityFocus.com does not have a copy of the exploit.

Solution / Fix

Valve Software Half-Life Dedicated Server Vulnerability

Solution:
Valve Software has released a fix for this vulnerability.


Valve Software Half-Life Dedicated Server 3.1

References

Valve Software Half-Life Dedicated Server Vulnerability

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