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.

EPSS: 0.021 (79.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Wesnoth — versions 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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