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CVE-2006-3913

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2006-09-26	freeciv -- Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

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CVE-2006-3913 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2006-3913
Phase	Assigned(20060727)

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.

References

Source	Reference
BUGTRAQ	20060723 Two crash vulnerabilities in Freeciv 2.1.0-beta1 (SVN 15 Jul 2006)
MISC	http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freecivx-adv.txt
DEBIAN	DSA-1142
MANDRIVA	MDKSA-2006:135
BID	19117
VUPEN	ADV-2006-2942
SECUNIA	21171
SECUNIA	21254
SECUNIA	21352
SREASON	1296
XF	freeciv-packetsc-dos(27955)
XF	freeciv-unithand-dos(27956)