CVE-2004-1539 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Halo: Combat Evolved 1.05 and earlier allows remote game servers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via a long value in a game server reply, which triggers a NULL dereference.

Published: 2005-02-19

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 7.1% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:gearbox_software:halo_combat_evolved:1.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gearbox_software:halo_combat_evolved:1.4:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gearbox_software:halo_combat_evolved:1.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gearbox_software:halo_combat_evolved:1.31:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2004-1533	Halo: Combat Evolved 1.05 and earlier allows remote game servers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via a long value in a game server reply, which triggers a NULL dereference.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.07074.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110114770406920&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/13273
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11724
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18196

History

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Subscriptions

Gearbox Software Halo Combat Evolved

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-02-19T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:53:24.172Z

Reserved: 2005-02-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-1539

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2004-1539

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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