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Buffer-overflow in Age of Sail II 1.04.151

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luigi Auriemma)
Wed Oct 20 13:44:41 2004

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:08:14 +0000
From: Luigi Auriemma <aluigi@autistici.org>
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                             Luigi Auriemma

Application:  Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II
              http://www.akella.com/aos2/
Versions:     <= 1.04.151 (seems also known as 1.55/1.56)
Platforms:    Windows
Bug:          buffer-overflow
Exploitation: remote, versus server
Date:         20 October 2004
Author:       Luigi Auriemma
              e-mail: aluigi@altervista.org
              web:    http://aluigi.altervista.org


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1) Introduction
2) Bug
3) The Code
4) Fix


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1) Introduction
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Age of Sail II is a naval strategy game developed by Akella
(http://www.akella.com) and released in the 2001.


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2) Bug
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The game is affected by a buffer-overflow happening when an attacker
joins in the server using a nickname of at least 144 bytes.


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3) The Code
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http://aluigi.altervista.org/poc/aos2bof.zip


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4) Fix
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No fix.
Vendor didn't reply to my mails.


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--- 
Luigi Auriemma
http://aluigi.altervista.org


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