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freeciv -- Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Description:

Secunia reports:

Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Freeciv, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

An error in the "generic_handle_player_attribute_chunk()" function in common/packets.c can be exploited to crash the service via a specially crafted PACKET_PLAYER_ATTRIBUTE_CHUNK packet sent to the server.

An error in the "handle_unit_orders()" function in server/unithand.c can be exploited to crash the service via a specially crafted packet.

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portaudit: freeciv -- Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>