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freeciv -- Packet Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability

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).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of the packet length in "common/packets.c". This can be exploited to crash the Freeciv server via a specially- crafted packet with the size set to "0xffff".

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Affects:

portaudit: freeciv -- Packet Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>