CVE-2009-0366

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-03-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The uncompress_buffer function in src/server/simple_wml.cpp in Wesnoth before r33069 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large compressed WML document.

Affected products

Wesnoth: through 1.5.11; 1.0-rc, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4 (+50)

References

http://launchpad.net/bugs/335089
http://launchpad.net/bugs/336396
http://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-0366
http://osvdb.org/52672
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/w/wesnoth/wesnoth_1.4.7-4/changelog
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/w/wesnoth/wesnoth_1.5.12-1/changelog
http://secunia.com/advisories/34236
http://secunia.com/advisories/34253
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/trunk/src/server/simple_wml.cpp?rev=33069&r1=32990&r2=33069
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/trunk/src/server/simple_wml.cpp?rev=33069&view=log
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1737
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34085

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