CVE-2009-3924

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-11-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in pbsv.dll, as used in Soldier of Fortune II and possibly other applications when Even Balance PunkBuster 1.728 or earlier is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application server crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long restart packet.

Affected products

Punkbuster: through 1.728; 1.272, 1.457, 1.458, 1.641, 1.642, 1.718 (+1)
Raven Software Soldier Of Fortune 2: all versions

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/sof2pbbof-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/sof2pbbof.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/36221
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52400
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/sof2pbbof-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/sof2pbbof.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/36221
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52400

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