Title: Abuse-SDL Command-Line Argument Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Abuse is a popular side-scrolling video game. It is available for Linux and Unix operating systems. Abuse-SDL is a port of Abuse that allows for greater colour depth.
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported for Abuse-SDL that may result in the execution of attacker-supplied code. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient bounds checking performed on certain commandline options. Specifically, the '-datadir' command-line option is not properly verfied prior to execution.
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by executing /usr/local/bin/abuse-sdl with an overly long value for the '-datadir' command-line option. This will trigger the buffer overflow condition and will cause the corruption of sensitive memory with attacker-supplied values.
This vulnerability could pose a security risk if the /usr/local/bin/abuse-sdl binary is installed with the setuid or setgid bit. However, it is not currently known whether this bit is set by default.
Affected Products:
- Abuse-SDL Abuse-SDL 0.7.0
References:
- Abuse-SDL: Abuse-SDL
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