General Question; Need to know

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    Member RickyMeekle123 is offline
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    General Question; Need to know

    Hi,

    Well I've been through this stage where people said about ;flagme being some sort of exploit or a way to allow packets into your retro.

    What does this so called "exploit" do?

    Thanks for explaining.


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    Member mateuscm is offline
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    Re: General Question; Need to know

    Quote Originally Posted by RickyMeekle123 View Post
    Hi,

    Well I've been through this stage where people said about ;flagme being some sort of exploit or a way to allow packets into your retro.

    What does this so called "exploit" do?

    Thanks for explaining.
    It's never come to my attention that flagme could be an exploit. Anyway, an exploit is a piece of data that can be used to take advantage over a vulnerability (in that case, in your hotel), whether is a bad written code or a field that can be injected to act the way it wasn't meant to be.

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    Member RickyMeekle123 is offline
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    Re: General Question; Need to know

    Hmm,

    Alright thanks.

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    R.I.P Millercent FatalLulz is offline
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    Re: General Question; Need to know

    Can be used as an 'exploit' in Phoenix versions 3.7 and below. Not direct inject or packet editing, but more tricking someone and then hijacking their rooms and items.

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    Re: General Question; Need to know

    Quote Originally Posted by FatalLulz View Post
    Can be used as an 'exploit' in Phoenix versions 3.7 and below. Not direct inject or packet editing, but more tricking someone and then hijacking their rooms and items.
    So if you stick with a newer version of Phoenix or with a good edit, such as Gold Tree, you're golden

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    Re: General Question; Need to know

    With some emulators they do not have proper validation to check if the username has been taken, so some people will send a packet through to change their name to an already taken name.

    Ways to prevent this?
    • Username field in the database should be unique.
    • Proper validation on the packet used to change a username.

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    Re: General Question; Need to know

    Quote Originally Posted by Sledmore View Post
    With some emulators they do not have proper validation to check if the username has been taken, so some people will send a packet through to change their name to an already taken name.

    Ways to prevent this?
    • Username field in the database should be unique.
    • Proper validation on the packet used to change a username.
    Very solid answer, the first one seems to be the most straightforward for a beginner

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    Member RickyMeekle123 is offline
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    Re: General Question; Need to know

    Yeah, so does that mean the release of shamike's Gold Tree Emulator edit is secure for flagme?

    (http://forum.ragezone.com/f353/gold-...dited-1039245/)

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    R.I.P Millercent FatalLulz is offline
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    Re: General Question; Need to know

    Quote Originally Posted by RickyMeekle123 View Post
    Yeah, so does that mean the release of shamike's Gold Tree Emulator edit is secure for flagme?

    (http://forum.ragezone.com/f353/gold-...dited-1039245/)
    Test it yourself. Make a second account, type flag me and see if you can make the name the same as yours or another characters.

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    Member RickyMeekle123 is offline
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    Re: General Question; Need to know

    No I can't. I just don't trust the packet way of changing your username into someone elses.



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