CVE-2012-5645 Information

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the server component of Freeciv before 2.3.4 processed certain packets. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted packet that when processed would lead to memory exhaustion or excessive CPU consumption.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095378.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095381.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/096391.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/18/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/22/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/11 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/8 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/31/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41352 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5645 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696306 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5645 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5645

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5