Description
World in Conflict (WIC) 1.008 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (access violation and crash) via a zero-byte data block to TCP port 48000, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.
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
- World in Conflict 1.008 - Null Pointer Remote Denial of Service EDB-31957 · dos · Jun 23, 2008 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- worldinconflict-nullpointer-dos(43289) vdb-entry
- 29888 vdb-entry
- 20080623 NULL pointer in World in Conflict 1.008 mailing-list
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/wicboom-adv.txt
- 46533 vdb-entry
- ADV-2008-1901 vdb-entry
- 30817 third-party-advisory