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Secunia Security Advisory 27786

Secunia Security Advisory 27786
Posted Nov 29, 2007
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

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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Secunia Security Advisory 27786

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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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use those supplied by the vendor.

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