CVE-2012-5645

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.

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5645

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5645

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696306

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41352

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/31/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/8

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/11

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/22/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/18/5

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/096391.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095381.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095378.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3