Vulnerability in Wesnoth
CVE-2007-3917
The multiplayer engine in Wesnoth 1.2.x before 1.2.7 and 1.3.x before 1.3.9 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long message with multibyte characters that can produce an invalid UTF-8 string after it is truncated, which triggers an uncaught exception, involving the truncate_message function in server/server.cpp. NOTE: this issue affects both clients and servers.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.021 (81.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 81.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Wesnoth — versions 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php
- osvdb.org/41711 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/25995 (vdb-entry)
- svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/tags/1.2.7/changelog
- secunia.com/advisories/27218 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00194.html (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37047 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/27241 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)