Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy 1.0.11 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

                                                source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12977/info

A buffer overflow is present in Jedi Academy that can be exploited remotely by client systems. The overflow is due to the use of the sprintf() function in a text visualization procedure, G_Printf(). The attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the server. 

// Jedi Academy <= 1.011 in-game server buffer-overflow 0.1
// by Luigi Auriemma
// e-mail: [email protected]
// web:    http://aluigi.altervista.org
// Ref:    http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/jamsgbof-adv.txt

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