>> Nexuiz Requests Handling Remote Command Injection and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Title : Nexuiz Requests Handling Remote Command Injection and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4992 CVE ID : CVE-2006-6609 - CVE-2006-6610
Rated as : High Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-12-13
Technical Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Nexuiz, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service.
The first issue is due to an input validation error within "clientcommands", which could be exploited by remote attackers to inject arbitrary commands.
The second issue is due to an error when processing player connections, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or exhaust all available memory resources, creating a denial of service condition.
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