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.
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DSA-1142-1 | New freeciv packages fix arbitrary code execution |
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EUVD-2006-3907 | 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. |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T18:48:39.225Z
Reserved: 2006-07-27T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-3913

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2006-07-28T00:04:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2006-3913

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