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CVE-2008-6712 (GCVE-0-2008-6712)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-04-10 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:41
VLAI
Summary
The HTTP/XML-RPC service in Crysis 1.21 (game version 1.1.1.6156) and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long HTTP request, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493385/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclo… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://osvdb.org/46261 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29759 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/30675 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://aluigi.org/poc/dontcrysis.txt x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2008-06-16 00:00
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