PT-2007-5138 · Battle For Wesnoth · Wesnoth

Published 2007-10-11 · Updated 2017-07-29 · CVE-2007-3917

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Wesnoth versions 1.2.x through 1.2.6 Wesnoth versions 1.3.x through 1.3.8

Description: The issue allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long message with multibyte characters. This can produce an invalid UTF-8 string after it is truncated, triggering an uncaught exception. The truncate message function in server/server.cpp is involved. Both clients and servers are affected.

Recommendations: For Wesnoth versions 1.2.x through 1.2.6, update to version 1.2.7 or later. For Wesnoth versions 1.3.x through 1.3.8, update to version 1.3.9 or later.

Fix

Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-134

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-3917

DSA-1386-1

Affected Products

Wesnoth

References · 14

• http://secunia.com/advisories/27241 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00194.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1386 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27137 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3917 · Security Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3449 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27218 · Vendor Advisory
• http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/tags/1.2.7/changelog?rev=20982&view=download · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37047 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/25995 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=324841 · Note
• http://wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18188 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/41711 · Note
• http://wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=256618 · Note