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TITLE:
Freeciv Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21171

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Freeciv 2.0.x
http://secunia.com/product/8551/

DESCRIPTION:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Freeciv, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An error in the "generic_handle_player_attribute_chunk()" function
in common/packets.c can be exploited to crash the service via a
specially crafted PACKET_PLAYER_ATTRIBUTE_CHUNK packet sent to the
server.

2) An error in the "handle_unit_orders()" function in
server/unithand.c can be exploited to crash the service via a
specially crafted packet.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 2.0.8 and
2.1.0-beta1. Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerabilities have been fixed in the SVN repository on
2006-07-16.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freecivx-adv.txt

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