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CVE-2006-3573 (GCVE-0-2006-3573)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-07-13 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 18:30
VLAI
Summary
Format string vulnerability in the WriteText function in agl_text.cpp in Milan Mimica Sparklet 0.9.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a player nickname.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016443 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439475/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/20974 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.osvdb.org/27038 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2763 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/sparkletfs-adv.txt x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18862 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2695 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Date Public
2006-07-06 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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