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Secunia Security Advisory 19120

Secunia Security Advisory 19120
Posted Mar 6, 2006
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

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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Secunia Security Advisory 19120

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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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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
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Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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