PT-2004-1804 · Valve · Half-Life Engine

Soul Beaver + 1 · Published 2004-07-23 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2004-0724

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Half-Life engine versions prior to July 7, 2004

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in either a server or client crash. This is achieved by sending an empty fragmented packet.

Recommendations For versions prior to July 7, 2004, consider applying configuration changes to handle or reject empty fragmented packets to prevent denial of service attacks. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-0724

Affected Products

Half-Life Engine

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0724 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16674 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/10700 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108966465302107&w=2 · Note