CVE-2009-2548 (GCVE-0-2009-2548)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-07-20 19:25 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:23
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Summary
Format string vulnerability in Armed Assault (aka ArmA) 1.14 and earlier, and 1.16 beta, and Armed Assault II 1.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the (1) nickname and (2) datafile fields in a join request, which is not properly handled when logging an error message.
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CWE
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