Gentoo: GLSA-200603-11 Normal: Freeciv Denial Of Service Attack

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200603-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Freeciv: Denial of Service Date: March 16, 2006 Bugs: #125304 ID: 200603-11

Synopsis ======= A memory allocation bug in Freeciv allows a remote attacker to perform a Denial of Service attack.
Background ========= Freeciv is an open source turn-based multiplayer strategy game, similar to the famous Civilization series.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 games-strategy/freeciv < 2.0.8 >= 2.0.8
========== Luigi Auriemma discovered that Freeciv could be tricked into the allocation of enormous chunks of memory when trying to uncompress malformed da...