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Debian DSA-994-1 : freeciv - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22860

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Luigi Auriemma discovered a denial of service condition in the free Civilization server that allows a remote user to trigger a server crash.

Solution

Upgrade the freeciv-server package.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.1-1sarge1.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=355211

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-994

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22860

File Name: debian_DSA-994.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:freeciv, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0047

BID: 16975

CWE: 20

DSA: 994