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Halo Client Server Denial of Service Vulnerability

Thursday, November 25th, 2004
by Marc Erickson

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Critical: Less critical Impact: DoS Where: From remote Solution Status: Vendor Patch Software: Halo 1.x

Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Halo, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the handling of server replies when browsing the list of online servers. This can be exploited by a malicious game server to crash client by returning a specially crafted reply.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.05. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution: Update to version 1.06.
http://www.microsoft.com/games/pc/halo.aspx#downloads

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