Description
Sauerbraten 2006_02_28, as derived from the Cube engine, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client exit) by forcing the server to change to a map (ogz) file whose name contains ".." sequences and has a certain length that prevents the addition of the ".ogz" extension.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Exploit-DB 1
- Sauerbraten 2006_02_28 - Multiple Buffer Overflow / Crash EDB-1559 · dos · Mar 6, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20060306 Multiple vulnerabilities in Cube engine 2005_08_29 mailing-list
- 19199 third-party-advisory
- 16986 vdb-entry
- 20060306 Multiple vulnerabilities in Sauerbraten engine 2006_02_28 mailing-list
- 548 third-party-advisory
- 19110 third-party-advisory
- ADV-2006-0847 vdb-entry
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/evilcube-adv.txt
- sauerbraten-sprintf-dos(25086) vdb-entry
- 19111 third-party-advisory
- GLSA-200603-10 vendor-advisory
- ADV-2006-0848 vdb-entry