CVE-2007-4643

Doomsday < 1.9.0_beta5.1 - Denial of Service via PKT_CHAT Packet Integer Underflow

Title source: llm

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 (9)

Core 9

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf

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

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3084

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/28821

Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm

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

Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/26524

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

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

Exploit vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25483

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

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

Exploit x_refsource_misc

http://aluigi.org/poc/dumsdei.zip

Scores

EPSS 0.0215

EPSS Percentile 80.1%

Details

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (1)

doomsday/doomsday < 1.9.0_beta5.1

Published Aug 31, 2007

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026