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FKIE_CVE-2009-2548

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-07-20 20:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:09

Severity

Summary

Format string vulnerability in 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 (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the (1) nickname and (2) datafile fields in a join request, which is not properly handled when logging an error message.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/armazzofs-adv.txt	Exploit
cve@mitre.org	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1951	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/armazzofs-adv.txt	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1951	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
bistudio	arma	*
bistudio	arma	1.14
bistudio	arma_2	*

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CVE-2009-2548 (GCVE-0-2009-2548)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-07-20 19:25 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:23

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1951	vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/armazzofs-adv.txt	x_refsource_MISC

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Sightings

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