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CVE-2007-4643

MEDIUM

5.0

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1490%

EPSS Percentile24.09th

PublishedAug 31, 2007

Last ModifiedApr 23, 2026

Vulnerability Description

Integer underflow in Doomsday (aka deng) 1.9.0-beta5.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a PKT_CHAT packet with a data length less than 3, which triggers an erroneous malloc, possibly related to the Sv_HandlePacket function in sv_main.c.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

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Doomsday

Doomsday

<= 1.9.0_beta5.1

References & Advisories

🔗 http://aluigi.org/poc/dumsdei.zip

🔗 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190835

🔗 http://secunia.com/advisories/26524

🔗 http://secunia.com/advisories/28821

🔗 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-02.xml

🔗 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3084

🔗 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478077/100/0/threaded

🔗 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25483

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