Re: CVE Request -- Freeciv (X < 2.3.3): DoS (memory exhaustion or excessive CPU consumption) via malformed network packets

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

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On 12/18/2012 07:13 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors,
>
> Freeciv upstream has released 2.3.3 version correcting one security
> issue:
>
> A denial of service flaw was found in the way the server component 
> of Freeciv, a turn-based, multi-player, X based strategy game, 
> processed certain packets (invalid packets with whole packet
> length lower than packet header size or syntactically valid
> packets, but whose processing would lead to an infinite loop). A
> remote attacker could send a specially-crafted packet that, when
> processed would lead to freeciv server to terminate (due to memory
> exhaustion) or become unresponsive (due to excessive CPU use).
>
> References: [1] http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freecivet-adv.txt 
> [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447490 [3]
> http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/NEWS-2.3.3 [4]
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888331
>
> Upstream bug report: [5] http://gna.org/bugs/?20003
>
> Relevant patch (against trunk): [6]
> http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/freeciv?view=revision&revision=21670
>
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this?
>
> Thank you && Regards, Jan. -- Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat
> Security Response Team

Please use CVE-2012-5645 for this issue.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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