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FreeBSD : freeciv -- Packet Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability (339fbbc1-4d23-11db-b48d-00508d6a62df)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22453

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

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'.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freecivdos-adv.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?28524e5b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22453

File Name: freebsd_pkg_339fbbc14d2311dbb48d00508d6a62df.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 9/27/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:freeciv, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:freeciv-gtk, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:freeciv-gtk2, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:freeciv-nox11, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/26/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0047

BID: 16975

CWE: 20

Secunia: 19120