[36962] in bugtraq
Re: Format String Vulnerability in Valve's CS-Source
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Some One)
Mon Oct 18 11:01:38 2004
Date: 15 Oct 2004 18:26:37 -0000
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From: Some One <mc.iglo@ddclan.de>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
In-Reply-To: <20041014192836.47e3964d.aluigi@autistici.org>
Hi,
This is way to technical for me, but i dont think so
i just found out, that not only the own client and the server crashes, if my name is '%n'! even all other conencted clients crash
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>If this is the same bug I reported over one year ago
>http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/hlclientfs-adv.txt probably Valve has not
>patched it yet or something similar (I don't play with Half-Life from
>years).
>
>About exploitation, the only method I found was versus the connected clients
>using the "Unknown command" reply sent by the server directly to them.
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>BYEZ
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>Luigi Auriemma
>http://aluigi.altervista.org
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