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Wesnoth UTF-8 Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA27137
Release Date: 2007-10-10
Popularity: 4,055 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Wesnoth 1.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Wesnoth, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the processing of UTF-8 strings within the multiplayer engine . This can be exploited by malicious clients to crash a vulnerable Wesnoth client.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.2.7.

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