National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-4584
Original release date:12/29/2005
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
BZFlag server 2.0.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a callsign that is not followed by a NULL (\0) character.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: BID
Name: 16066
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1015418
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18238
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/bzflag/bzflag/ChangeLog?rev=2.103
External Source: MISC
Name: http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/bzflagboom-adv.txt
Type: Advisory; Exploit
External Source: XF
Name: bzflag-callsign-dos(23872)
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 22036