Vulnerability in Freeciv
CVE-2006-3913
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.057 (92.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 92.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.057 · newest: 0.057 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Freeciv — versions 2.1.0_beta1
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2942 (vdb-entry)
- aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freecivx-adv.txt (Exploit)
- secunia.com/advisories/21254 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27955 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/21352 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441042/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27956 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/19117 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1142 (vendor-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)