CVE-2006-0047

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-03-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

packets.c in Freeciv 2.0 before 2.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) via crafted packets with negative compressed size values.

Affected products

freeciv: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+3)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=355211
http://secunia.com/advisories/19120
http://secunia.com/advisories/19227
http://secunia.com/advisories/19253
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-994
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-11.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:053
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426866/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16975
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0838
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25166
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=355211

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