CVE-2006-3913 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freecivx-adv.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/21171 http://secunia.com/advisories/21254 http://secunia.com/advisories/21352 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1296 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1142 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:135 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441042/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19117 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2942 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27955 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27956