Description
A denial of service flaw was found in the way the server component of Freeciv before 2.3.4 processed certain packets. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted packet that, when processed would lead to memory exhaustion or excessive CPU consumption.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
freeciv freeciv
before 2.3.4affected
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5645 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5645 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5645 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/18/5 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/31/2 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095378.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095381.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/096391.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/22/4 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/11 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/8 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41352 ↗
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696306 ↗