How severe is CVE-2007-5248?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of HIGH with a CVSS score of 9.3 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2007-5248?

This is classified as CWE-134, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2007-5248

HIGH Year: 2007

CVSS v2 Score

9.3

Critical

Weakness Type

CWE-134

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Vulnerability Description

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in the ID Software Doom 3 engine, as used by Doom 3 1.3.1 and earlier, Quake 4 1.4.2 and earlier, and Prey 1.3 and earlier, when Punkbuster (PB) is enabled, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via format string specifiers in (1) a PB_Y packet to the YPG server or (2) a PB_U packet to UCON. NOTE: this issue might be in Punkbuster itself, but there are insufficient details to be certain.

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