CVE-2004-0278 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2004-0278

Ratbag game engine, as used in products such as Dirt...

Vulnerability Description

Ratbag game engine, as used in products such as Dirt Track Racing, Leadfoot, and World of Outlaws Spring Cars, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a TCP packet that specifies the length of data to read and then sends a second TCP packet that contains less data than specified, which causes Ratbag to repeatedly check the socket for more data.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

dirt track racing, dirt track racing australia, dirt track racing sprint cars, leadfoot, world of outlaws sprint cars
Vulnerable Versions:
1.0.3, 2.0

Timeline

Official Publish: March 18th, 2004
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.