Vulnerability CVE-2006-3913
Published: 2006-07-27   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Two crash vulnerabilities in Freeciv 2.1.0-beta1 (SVN 15 Jul 2006)
Luigi Auriemma (...
01.08.2006

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Freeciv -> Freeciv 

 References:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freecivx-adv.txt
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1296
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1142
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:135
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441042/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19117
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2942
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27955
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27956
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