CVE-2008-2748

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: 2008-06-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Skulltag 0.97d2-RC2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon hang) via a series of long, malformed connect packets, related to these packets being "parsed multiple times."

Affected products

Skulltag Team Skulltag: 0.95c, 0.95d, 0.95e, 0.95f, 0.95g, 0.95h (+24)

References

http://aluigi.org/poc/skulltagloop.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/30668
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3953
http://skulltag.com/testing/public/Skulltag%20Version%20History.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493386/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29760
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43125
http://aluigi.org/poc/skulltagloop.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/30668
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3953
http://skulltag.com/testing/public/Skulltag%20Version%20History.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493386/100/0/threaded

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