freeciv — security advisory
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.
- Products
- freeciv
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.0.8-3
- CVEs
- CVE-2006-3913
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:14 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-3913
freeciv
Fixed versions: 2.0.8-3
freeciv
Fixed versions: 2.0.8-3
freeciv
Fixed versions: 2.0.8-3
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-22T23:47:26.436385741Z",
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