# CVE-2007-4643: 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

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2007-08-31 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36338
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3084
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28821
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190835
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26524
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478077/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25483
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-02.xml
- http://aluigi.org/poc/dumsdei.zip

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