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freeciv: denial of service

Package(s):freeciv CVE #(s):CVE-2006-3913
Created:August 1, 2006 Updated:August 4, 2006
Description: A buffer overflow in Freeciv 2.1.0-beta1 and earlier, and SVN from July 15, 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.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1142-1 2006-08-04
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:135 2006-07-31

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