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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