CVE-2006-1593

Zdaemon < 1.08.01 and X-Doom - Denial of Service via Invalid Player Slot or Item Number

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2006-1593. PoCs published by Luigi Auriemma.

AI-analyzed exploit summary The provided text is a vulnerability writeup for CVE-2006-1593, describing a buffer overflow in the 'is_client_wad_ok' function and a DoS condition in ZDaemon 1.08.01 and prior versions. No actual exploit code is included.

Description

The (1) ZD_MissingPlayer, (2) ZD_UseItem, and (3) ZD_LoadNewClientLevel functions in sv_main.cpp for (a) Zdaemon 1.08.01 and (b) X-Doom allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid player slot or item number, which causes an invalid memory access, possibly due to an invalid array index.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP VERIFIED
by Luigi Auriemma · textdosmultiple
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27547

The provided text is a vulnerability writeup for CVE-2006-1593, describing a buffer overflow in the 'is_client_wad_ok' function and a DoS condition in ZDaemon 1.08.01 and prior versions. No actual exploit code is included.

Classification
Writeup 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Theoretical
Target: ZDaemon <= 1.08.01
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Network access to the ZDaemon server
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (10)

Core 10
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/429521/100/0/threaded
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1198
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1199
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17340
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/662
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/zdaebof-adv.txt
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-March/044775.html
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/19509
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/19496
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25593

Scores

EPSS 0.0458
EPSS Percentile 90.4%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (2)
x-doom/x-doom 1.06.07
zdaemon/zdaemon < 1.08.01
Published Apr 03, 2006
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026