Valve: Malformed .BMP file in Counter-Strike 1.6 may cause shellcode injection

With the vulnerability of the GoldSource Engine, the server is able to perform remote code execution on the client, overwriting the stack when reading the BMP file. The problem is in the LoadBMP8 function, which is executed when the player connects to the server, by loading the...

MIRC 2.x/3.x/4.x/5.x - Nick Buffer Overflow

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4027/info mIRC is a popular Internet Relay Chat client whichs runs of Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP operating systems. A remote exploitable buffer overflow condition has been discovered in mIRC. This issue is due to improper bounds checking of...

Ethereal - AFS Buffer Overflow

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1972/info Ethereal is a network auditing utility originally written by Gerald Combs. A problem exists in the Ethereal package which can allow a remote user to execute code. The problem exists in the AFS packet parsing routine. An algorithm string scans...