CVE-2005-4584

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-12-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

BZFlag server 2.0.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a callsign that is not followed by a NULL (\0) character.

Affected products

Bzflag Server: through 2.0.4; 1.7c_release_1, 1.7c_release_2, 1.7c_release_2_patch_1, 1.7c_release_2_patch_2, 1.7c_release_2_patch_3, 1.7d1 (+22)

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/bzflagboom-adv.txt
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/%2Acheckout%2A/bzflag/bzflag/ChangeLog?rev=2.103
http://secunia.com/advisories/18238
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015418
http://www.osvdb.org/22036
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16066
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23872
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/bzflagboom-adv.txt
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/%2Acheckout%2A/bzflag/bzflag/ChangeLog?rev=2.103
http://secunia.com/advisories/18238
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015418
http://www.osvdb.org/22036

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