CVE-2012-5645

EPSS 4.3%

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.

Affected products

freeciv · freeciv

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References

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 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 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