CVE-2007-5249

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-10-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the logging function in the Unreal engine, as used by America's Army and America's Army Special Forces 2.8.2 and earlier, when Punkbuster (PB) is enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a long (1) PB_Y packet to the YPG server on UDP port 1716 or (2) PB_U packet to UCON on UDP port 1716, different vectors than CVE-2007-4442. NOTE: this issue might be in Punkbuster itself, but there are insufficient details to be certain.

Affected products

Americasarmy America'S Army: through 2.8.2
Americasarmy America'S Army Special Forces: through 2.8.2

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/aaboompb-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/aaboompb.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/27015
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3193
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/481227/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36897
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/aaboompb-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/aaboompb.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/27015
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3193
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/481227/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36897

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