National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-3917
Original release date:10/11/2007
Last revised:03/25/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The multiplayer engine in Wesnoth 1.2.x before 1.2.7 and 1.3.x before 1.3.9 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long message with multibyte characters that can produce an invalid UTF-8 string after it is truncated, which triggers an uncaught exception, involving the truncate_message function in server/server.cpp. NOTE: this issue affects both clients and servers.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2007-2496
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=324841
External Source: XF
Name: wesnoth-utf8-dos(37047)
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18188
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=256618
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-3449
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 25995
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1386
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/tags/1.2.7/changelog?rev=20982&view=download
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27241
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27218
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27137
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 41711
Technical Details
- Format String Vulnerability (CWE-134)