CVE-2004-2449 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can crash the Roger Wilco VoIP client by sending a long, malformed UDP datagram, causing a denial of service.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2004-2449?

CVE-2004-2449 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Aug 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Roger Wilco 1.4.1.6 and earlier or Roger Wilco Base Station 0.30a and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long, malformed UDP datagram.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-2449?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Gamespy Roger Wilco Dedicated Server, Gamespy Roger Wilco Graphical Server.

How do I fix CVE-2004-2449?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-2449 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2004-2449 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2004-2449 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry and 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-4xgf-p747-c98v.

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