CVE-2009-2549: Bistudio Arma

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Armed Assault (aka ArmA) 1.14 and earlier, and 1.16 beta, and Armed Assault II 1.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a join packet with a final field whose value is (1) 0, which triggers a server crash related to memory allocation, or (2) 1, which triggers CPU/memory consumption and a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

  • Bistudio Arma: up to and including 1.16_beta; version 1.14 only
  • Bistudio Arma 2: up to and including 1.02

Published 2009-07-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.