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Resource Management Errors

CVE-2006-1275

Medium
5/10

Summary

GGZ Gaming Zone 0.0.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client disconnect) via inputs that produce malformed XML, including (1) trailing ' (apostrophe) character on the ID attribute in a PLAYER XML tag, (2) joining with a long ID attribute or non-trailing ' characters, which causes a <none> name to be assigned, and then disconnecting, or (3) a long CDATA message attribute, which prevents closing tags from being added to the string.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Resource management errors is not a weakness in and of itself, rather it is a category of weaknesses related to improper management of system resources. If not addressed, the weaknesses in this category can lead to unexpected software behavior, loss of access, file modification, sensitive information disclosure, system crash, denial of service, and code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published