PT-2006-4759 · Freeciv · Freeciv

Luigi Auriemma

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Published

2006-07-28

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Updated

2018-10-17

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CVE-2006-3913

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

VectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Freeciv versions 2.1.0-beta1 and earlier Freeciv SVN versions prior to 15 Jul 2006
Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a negative chunk length or a large chunk->offset value in a PACKET PLAYER ATTRIBUTE CHUNK packet in the generic handle player attribute chunk function, and a large packet->length value in the handle unit orders function.
Recommendations For Freeciv versions 2.1.0-beta1 and earlier, update to a version later than 2.1.0-beta1 to resolve the issue. For Freeciv SVN versions prior to 15 Jul 2006, update to a version later than 15 Jul 2006 to resolve the issue.

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Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-3913
DSA-1142-1

Affected Products

Freeciv