CVE-2009-2549 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the game server or cause resource exhaustion by sending a malicious join packet with specific field values.
- 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-2009-2549?
CVE-2009-2549 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Jul 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Armed Assault (aka ArmA) 1.14 and earlier, and 1.16 beta, and Armed Assault II 1.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a join packet with a final field whose value is (1) 0, which triggers a server crash related to memory allocation, or (2) 1, which triggers CPU/memory consumption and a NULL pointer dereference.
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-2549?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Bistudio Arma, Bistudio Arma 2.
How do I fix CVE-2009-2549?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-2549 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-2009-2549 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-2549 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r42m-qqqw-rx75.