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wesnoth: denial of service

Package(s):wesnoth CVE #(s):CVE-2007-3917
Created:October 12, 2007 Updated:December 3, 2007
Description: A malicious user could send a long chat message with multibyte characters, the server would truncate the message on a fixed length, without paying attention to the multibyte characters. This led to invalid utf-8 on the client and an uncaught exception was thrown.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1386-2 2007-10-15
Debian DSA-1386-1 2007-10-15
Fedora FEDORA-2007-2496 2007-10-11
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