Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Freeciv, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Freeciv Packet Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19120
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19120/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Freeciv 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/8551/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Freeciv, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of
the packet length in "common/packets.c". This may be exploited to
crash the Freeciv server via a specially-crafted packet.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 2.0.8.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0.8.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=138322
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Luigi Auriemma.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Freeciv:
ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/pub/freeciv/latest/ChangeLog-trunk-since-2.0
Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=355211
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