CVE-2007-4642
28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 16%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDAug 31
1st PoCAug 29
exploitation probability
16%top 3% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
Multiple buffer overflows in Doomsday (aka deng) 1.9.0-beta5.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long chat (PKT_CHAT) message that is not properly handled by the (1) D_NetPlayerEvent function in d_net.c or the (2) Msg_Write function in net_msg.c, or (3) many commands that are not properly handled by the NetSv_ReadCommands function in d_netsv.c; or (4) cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a chat (PKT_CHAT) message without a final '\0' character.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
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References
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/dumsdei-adv.txthttp://aluigi.org/poc/dumsdei.ziphttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190835http://secunia.com/advisories/26524http://secunia.com/advisories/28821http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-02.xmlhttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/3084https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36332https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36333https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36334http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478077/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25483