Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package freeciv  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-FREECIV-641374
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed23 Jan 2020

Introduced: 23 Jan 2020

CVE-2012-6083  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream freeciv package and not the freeciv package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Freeciv before 2.3.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted packet.