freeciv 2.2 before 2.2.1 and 2.3 before 2.3.0 allows attackers to read arbitrary files or execute arbitrary commands via a scenario that contains Lua functionality, related to the (1) os, (2) io, (3) package, (4) dofile, (5) loadfile, (6) loadlib, (7) module, and (8) require modules or functions.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201402-07 (Freeciv: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code)

    The Lua component of Freeciv does not restrict which modules may be       loaded by scenario scripts.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted       scenario file, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code or       reading of arbitrary files with the privileges of the process.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in freeciv :

freeciv 2.2 before 2.2.1 and 2.3 before 2.3.0 allows attackers to read arbitrary files or execute arbitrary commands via scenario that contains Lua functionality, related to the (1) os, (2) io, (3) package, (4) dofile, (5) loadfile, (6) loadlib, (7) module, and (8) require modules or functions (CVE-2010-2445).

The updated packages have been upgraded to v2.2.1 which is not vulnerable to this issue.

A lot of fixes and updates, including a security fix. Fixes #612296

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
72384	GLSA-201402-07 : Freeciv: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
50008	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : freeciv (MDVSA-2010:205)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	critical
48378	Fedora 12 : freeciv-2.2.2-1.fc12 (2010-12262)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
48377	Fedora 13 : freeciv-2.2.2-1.fc13 (2010-12256)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
48365	Fedora 14 : freeciv-2.2.2-1.fc14 (2010-12371)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical

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