Vulnerability CVE-2007-3917
Published: 2007-10-11   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The multiplayer engine in Wesnoth 1.2.x before 1.2.7 and 1.3.x before 1.3.9 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long message with multibyte characters that can produce an invalid UTF-8 string after it is truncated, which triggers an uncaught exception, involving the truncate_message function in server/server.cpp. NOTE: this issue affects both clients and servers.

Type:

CWE-134

 (Uncontrolled Format String)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Wesnoth -> Wesnoth 

 References:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00194.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=324841
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/37047
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18188
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=256618
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3449
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25995
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1386
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/tags/1.2.7/changelog?rev=20982&view=download
http://secunia.com/advisories/27241
http://secunia.com/advisories/27218
http://secunia.com/advisories/27137
http://osvdb.org/41711
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