CVE-2009-10006 (GCVE-0-2009-10006)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-22 14:07
Modified
2025-08-22 14:36
Severity ?
9.3 (Critical) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Summary
UFO: Alien Invasion versions up to and including 2.2.1 contain a buffer overflow vulnerability in its built-in IRC client component. When the client connects to an IRC server and receives a crafted numeric reply (specifically a 001 message), the application fails to properly validate the length of the response string. This results in a stack-based buffer overflow, which may corrupt control flow structures and allow arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability is triggered during automatic IRC connection handling and does not require user interaction beyond launching the game.
References
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/osx/misc/ufo_ai.rb
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/misc/ufo_ai.rb
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14013
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16864
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://www.moddb.com/news/ufo-alien-invasion-231-released
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ufo-alien-invasion-irc-client-buffer-overflow
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
UFO: Alien Invasion Project UFO: Alien Invasion Version: *   ≤ 2.2.1
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