-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 _______________________________________________________________________ Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2006:135 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ _______________________________________________________________________ Package : freeciv Date : July 31, 2006 Affected: 2006.0 _______________________________________________________________________ Problem Description: 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. The updated packages have been patched to fix this issue. _______________________________________________________________________ References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3913 _______________________________________________________________________ Updated Packages: Mandriva Linux 2006.0: 5ddab58ab94283b8c4398875a2a845de 2006.0/RPMS/freeciv-client-2.0.4-2.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm 218f597230b3435da9a41a6cc1f27826 2006.0/RPMS/freeciv-data-2.0.4-2.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm ee661fb04809a50f893342ac350dfc3f 2006.0/RPMS/freeciv-server-2.0.4-2.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm 73be75ec52570bc9a58eed1f94916135 2006.0/SRPMS/freeciv-2.0.4-2.2.20060mdk.src.rpm Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64: 5c0a814a9abb1d374837141815fccb7a x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/freeciv-client-2.0.4-2.2.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm 454360b2ce12207760c7e4325c8e5c3f x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/freeciv-data-2.0.4-2.2.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm dea806eb51d3c13f893a3adcd9866f85 x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/freeciv-server-2.0.4-2.2.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm 73be75ec52570bc9a58eed1f94916135 x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/freeciv-2.0.4-2.2.20060mdk.src.rpm _______________________________________________________________________ To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing: gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security_(at)_mandriva.com _______________________________________________________________________ Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team <security*mandriva.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEznysmqjQ0CJFipgRAjD2AKC20vpTIzWQxLfI4767y0nj3kX7wACgtcmX FQ9c69ztrNPZxtCiNA6Z6hg= =H1PR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----