[Pkg-freeciv-devel] Bug#381378: CVE-2006-3913: arbitrary code execution in freeciv

Stefan Fritsch sf at sfritsch.de
Thu Aug 3 22:28:51 UTC 2006


Package: freeciv
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

CVE-2006-3913:
"Buffer overflow in Freeciv 2.1.0-beta1 and earlier, and SVN 15 Jul
2006 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) negative
chunk_length or a (2) large chunk->offset value in a
PACKET_PLAYER_ATTRIBUTE_CHUNK packet in the
generic_handle_player_attribute_chunk function in common/packets.c,
and (3) a large packet->length value in the handle_unit_orders
function in server/unithand.c."

Please mention the CVE-id in the changelog.




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