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TITLE:
Battlefield 2 / 2142 NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA43414

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-03-07

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Battlefield 2 and Battlefield
2142, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference when
processing certain commands and can be exploited to crash a server by
sending a specially crafted packet.

The vulnerability is reported in Battlefield 2 version 1.5.3153-802.0
and Battlefield 2142 version 1.10.112.0.

SOLUTION:
Host games in trusted networks only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
SomaFM, Luigi Auriemma, and Francis Lavoie-Renaud.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/bf2null-adv.txt

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