Description
Skulltag 0.97d2-RC2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon hang) via a series of long, malformed connect packets, related to these packets being "parsed multiple times."
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.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Skulltag 0.97 d2-RC3 - Malformed Packet Denial of Service EDB-31932 · dos · Jun 16, 2008 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- skulltag-packet-dos(43125) vdb-entry
- http://skulltag.com/testing/public/Skulltag%20Version%20History.txt
- 29760 vdb-entry
- http://aluigi.org/poc/skulltagloop.zip
- 3953 third-party-advisory
- 20080616 Server freezed in Skulltag 0.97d2-RC2 mailing-list
- 30668 third-party-advisory