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Mageia 9 freeciv Important Stack Overflow Crash CVE-2026-33250

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Calendar Grey June 9, 2026
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New Mageia security advisory addresses critical freeciv vulnerability causing crashes due to remote attacks with crafted packets.
Security update

Summary

Description: CVE-2026-33250, freeciv crash with a stack overflow when receiving specially-crafted packets. A remote attacker can use this to take down any public server. A malicious server can use this to crash the game on the player's machine

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35257

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00082.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-33250

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Topics Covered

security advisory remote attack important freeciv crash Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/freeciv-3.0.7-1.2.mga9

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Publication date: 10 Jun 2026
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2026-0183.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2026-33250

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Topics Covered

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