CVE-2012-5645
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
A denial of service flaw was found in the way the server component of Freeciv before 2.3.4 processed certain packets. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted packet that, when processed would lead to memory exhaustion or excessive CPU consumption.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095378.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095381.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/096391.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/18/5Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/22/4Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/11Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/8Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/31/2Advisory