Debian Security Advisory

DSA-994-1 freeciv -- denial of service

Date Reported:

13 Mar 2006

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 355211.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 16975.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0047.

More information:

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

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.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.8-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your freeciv-server package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv_2.0.1-1sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv_2.0.1-1sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv_2.0.1.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-data_2.0.1-1sarge1_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-gtk_2.0.1-1sarge1_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-xaw3d_2.0.1-1sarge1_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv_2.0.1-1sarge1_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-gtk_2.0.1-1sarge1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-xaw3d_2.0.1-1sarge1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-server_2.0.1-1sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-gtk_2.0.1-1sarge1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-xaw3d_2.0.1-1sarge1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-server_2.0.1-1sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-gtk_2.0.1-1sarge1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-xaw3d_2.0.1-1sarge1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-server_2.0.1-1sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-gtk_2.0.1-1sarge1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-xaw3d_2.0.1-1sarge1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-server_2.0.1-1sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-gtk_2.0.1-1sarge1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-xaw3d_2.0.1-1sarge1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-server_2.0.1-1sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-gtk_2.0.1-1sarge1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-xaw3d_2.0.1-1sarge1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-server_2.0.1-1sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-gtk_2.0.1-1sarge1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-xaw3d_2.0.1-1sarge1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-server_2.0.1-1sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-gtk_2.0.1-1sarge1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-xaw3d_2.0.1-1sarge1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-server_2.0.1-1sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-gtk_2.0.1-1sarge1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-xaw3d_2.0.1-1sarge1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-server_2.0.1-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-gtk_2.0.1-1sarge1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-xaw3d_2.0.1-1sarge1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-server_2.0.1-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-gtk_2.0.1-1sarge1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-xaw3d_2.0.1-1sarge1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-server_2.0.1-1sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-gtk_2.0.1-1sarge1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-client-xaw3d_2.0.1-1sarge1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeciv/freeciv-server_2.0.1-1sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.