CVE-2007-4531

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-08-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Soldat game server 1.4.2 and earlier, and dedicated server 2.6.2 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a client denial of service (crash) via (1) a long string to the file transfer port or (2) a long chat message, or (3) a server denial of service (continuous beep and slowdown) via a string containing many 0x07 or other control characters to the file transfer port.

Affected products

Michal Marcinkowski Soldat Dedicated Server: through 2.6.2
Michal Marcinkowski Soldat Game Server: through 1.4.2

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/soldatdos-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/soldatdos.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/26564
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477624/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25426
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36230
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36231
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/soldatdos-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/soldatdos.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/26564
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477624/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25426

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