CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-3913
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-07-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.
Affected configurations
• freeciv freeciv 2.1.0 beta1
References
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freecivx-adv.txt Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21171 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21254 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21352 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1296 securityreason.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1142 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:135 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441042/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19117 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2942 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27955 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27956 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freecivx-adv.txt Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21171 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21254 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21352 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1296 securityreason.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1142 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:135 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441042/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19117 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2942 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27955 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27956 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com