CVE-2005-3488

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-11-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Scorched 3D 39.1 (bf) and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (long loop and server hang) via a negative numplayers value that bypasses a signed check in ServerConnectHandler.cpp.

Affected products

Scorched 3D: 39.1

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/scorchbugs-adv.txt
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113095941031946&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/17423
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-12.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15292
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2288
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/scorchbugs-adv.txt
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113095941031946&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/17423
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-12.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15292
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2288

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