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Batalla Naval Buffer Overflow
Secunia Advisory: SA8899
Release Date: 2003-05-30
Popularity: 4,903 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Batalla Naval 1.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Batalla Naval, allowing malicious people to cause a buffer overflow which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

The problem is that Batalla Naval can't handle strings longer than 500 characters.

Exploit code has been published.

Solution:
Do not allow traffic from untrusted networks to access the Batalla Naval service. Do not run games on production systems.

Provided and/or discovered by:
wsxz


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