Halo: Combat Evolved Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Halo: Combat Evolved, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the communication handling. This can be exploited to cause a vulnerable service to enter an infinite loop and consume a large amount of CPU resources by sending a specially crafted UDP datagram to the server.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.06 and 1.00 (Custom Edition), and prior.
Solution:
The vulnerability will reportedly be fixed in the upcoming 1.07 version.
Host games on a trusted network only.
posted by Fergie @ 5/25/2005 07:09:00 AM
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