Description
Integer underflow in Doomsday (aka deng) 1.9.0-beta5.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a PKT_CHAT packet with a data length less than 3, which triggers an erroneous malloc, possibly related to the Sv_HandlePacket function in sv_main.c.
Metrics
CVSS 2.0 5.0/10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
References
- http://aluigi.org/poc/dumsdei.zipExploit
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190835
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26524Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28821
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-02.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3084
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478077/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25483Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36338
- http://aluigi.org/poc/dumsdei.zipExploit
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190835
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26524Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28821
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-02.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3084
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478077/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25483Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36338
Timeline
- Published
- Aug 31, 2007
- Last modified
- Jun 16, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified