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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.57211
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1142-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'freeciv' package(s) announced via the DSA-1142-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'freeciv' package(s) announced via the DSA-1142-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Luigi Auriemma discovered missing boundary checks in freeciv, a clone of the well known Civilisation game, which can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.1-1sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your freeciv package.

Affected Software/OS:
'freeciv' package(s) on Debian 3.1.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-3913
BugTraq ID: 19117
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19117
Bugtraq: 20060723 Two crash vulnerabilities in Freeciv 2.1.0-beta1 (SVN 15 Jul 2006) (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441042/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1142 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1142
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:135
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freecivx-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/21171
http://secunia.com/advisories/21254
http://secunia.com/advisories/21352
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1296
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2942
XForce ISS Database: freeciv-packetsc-dos(27955)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27955
XForce ISS Database: freeciv-unithand-dos(27956)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27956
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