CVE-2009-2549

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-07-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Armed Assault (aka ArmA) 1.14 and earlier, and 1.16 beta, and Armed Assault II 1.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a join packet with a final field whose value is (1) 0, which triggers a server crash related to memory allocation, or (2) 1, which triggers CPU/memory consumption and a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

Bistudio Arma: through 1.16_beta; 1.14
Bistudio Arma 2: through 1.02

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/armazzo-adv.txt
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1951
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/armazzo-adv.txt
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1951

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