CVE-2006-3913 Affecting freeciv package, versions <2.0.8-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
17.4% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-FREECIV-269869
  • published28 Jul 2006
  • disclosed28 Jul 2006

Introduced: 28 Jul 2006

CVE-2006-3913  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 freeciv to version 2.0.8-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream freeciv package and not the freeciv package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Buffer overflow in Freeciv 2.1.0-beta1 and earlier, and SVN 15 Jul 2006 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) negative chunk_length or a (2) large chunk->offset value in a PACKET_PLAYER_ATTRIBUTE_CHUNK packet in the generic_handle_player_attribute_chunk function in common/packets.c, and (3) a large packet->length value in the handle_unit_orders function in server/unithand.c.

CVSS Scores

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