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Freeciv Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA21171
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Release Date:
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2006-07-24
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Last Update:
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2006-08-03
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Popularity:
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6,370 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Freeciv 2.0.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-3913
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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
Changelog:
2006-08-03: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freecivx-adv.txt
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