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GHSA-MJ5X-V9M2-C9JH

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-22 15:33 – Updated: 2025-08-22 15:33

Details

UFO: Alien Invasion versions up to and including 2.2.1 contain a buffer overflow vulnerability in its built-in IRC client component. When the client connects to an IRC server and receives a crafted numeric reply (specifically a 001 message), the application fails to properly validate the length of the response string. This results in a stack-based buffer overflow, which may corrupt control flow structures and allow arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability is triggered during automatic IRC connection handling and does not require user interaction beyond launching the game.

Severity

9.3 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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CVE-2009-10006 (GCVE-0-2009-10006)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-22 14:07 – Updated: 2026-05-15 11:13

Title

UFO: Alien Invasion <= 2.2.1 IRC Client Buffer Overflow

Summary

Severity

9.3 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-08-22 14:36 UTC

CWE

CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Assigner

VulnCheck mitre root

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasplo…	exploit
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasplo…	exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16864	exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14013	exploit
https://www.moddb.com/news/ufo-alien-invasion-231…	vendor-advisorypatch
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ufo-alien-in…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
UFO: Alien Invasion Project	UFO: Alien Invasion	Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.2.1 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:alienform2_project:alienform2::::::::

Date Public

2010-06-24 00:00

Credits

Jason Geffner

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