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CVE-2006-3913

HIGH

7.5

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.0590%

EPSS Percentile42.49th

PublishedJul 28, 2006

Last ModifiedApr 16, 2026

Vulnerability Description

Buffer overflow in Freeciv 2.1.0-beta1 and earlier, and SVN 15 Jul 2006 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) negative chunk_length or a (2) large chunk->offset value in a PACKET_PLAYER_ATTRIBUTE_CHUNK packet in the generic_handle_player_attribute_chunk function in common/packets.c, and (3) a large packet->length value in the handle_unit_orders function in server/unithand.c.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Freeciv

Freeciv

= 2.1.0_beta1

References & Advisories

🔗 http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freecivx-adv.txt

🔗 http://secunia.com/advisories/21171

🔗 http://secunia.com/advisories/21254

🔗 http://secunia.com/advisories/21352

🔗 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1296

🔗 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1142

🔗 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:135

🔗 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441042/100/0/threaded

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