CVE-2008-3286

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-07-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

SWAT 4 1.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a (1) VERIFYCONTENT or (2) GAMECONFIG command sent to the server before user session initialization, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference; or (3) a GAMESPYRESPONSE command followed by a long RS string.

Affected products

Sierra Swat 4: through 1.1

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/swat4x-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/fakep/unrealfp.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/31158
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30299
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2149/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43901
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43902
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/swat4x-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/fakep/unrealfp.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/31158
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30299
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2149/references

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