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FKIE_CVE-2009-3924

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-11-10 02:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:12

Severity

Summary

Buffer overflow in pbsv.dll, as used in Soldier of Fortune II and possibly other applications when Even Balance PunkBuster 1.728 or earlier is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application server crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long restart packet.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/sof2pbbof-adv.txt
cve@mitre.org	http://aluigi.org/poc/sof2pbbof.zip	Patch
cve@mitre.org	http://secunia.com/advisories/36221
cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52400
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/sof2pbbof-adv.txt
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://aluigi.org/poc/sof2pbbof.zip	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://secunia.com/advisories/36221
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52400

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
raven_software	soldier_of_fortune_2	*
punkbuster	punkbuster	*
punkbuster	punkbuster	1.272
punkbuster	punkbuster	1.457
punkbuster	punkbuster	1.458
punkbuster	punkbuster	1.641
punkbuster	punkbuster	1.642
punkbuster	punkbuster	1.718
punkbuster	punkbuster	1.723

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CVE-2009-3924 (GCVE-0-2009-3924)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-11-10 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:45

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/sof2pbbof-adv.txt	x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://aluigi.org/poc/sof2pbbof.zip	x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/36221	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Date Public

2009-08-12 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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