CVE-2007-4643

high

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36338

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478077/100/0/threaded

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3084

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-02.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/28821

http://secunia.com/advisories/26524

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190835

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-08-31

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High