Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wesnoth, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose potentially sensitive information, or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Wesnoth Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27786
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27786/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Wesnoth 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/16022/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wesnoth, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service),
disclose potentially sensitive information, or potentially compromise
a vulnerable system.
1) An error within the WML preprocessor can be exploited via a
malicious add-on to disclose the content of arbitrary files on an
affected system when processing pathnames that contain directory
traversal sequences.
2) An error within the handling of the "turn_cmd" option can be
exploited to cause a DoS or potentially execute arbitrary commands
via a malicious add-on.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.2.8.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.8.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=557098
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=264289#264289
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