Title: Akella Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Akella Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II is a real time strategy game based around the sailing ship era. It includes a client and server for multiple player online game action. It is commercially available for the Microsoft Windows platform.
Akella Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II is reportedly affected by a remote buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to do sufficient bounds checking on user-supplied input.
The problem presents itself when a malicious user logs on to an affected server with a malicious nickname. Apparently a nickname of greater than 144 characters will trigger the overflow.
An attacker can leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code on an affected computer with the privileges of a user running a vulnerable version of the game.
Affected Products:
- Akella Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II 1.4.51
- Akella Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II 1.55.0
- Akella Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II 1.56.0
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