CVE-2006-3913

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-07-28 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

freeciv: 2.1.0_beta1

References

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
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19117
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2942
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27955
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27956

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