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

mageia
Calendar Grey June 9, 2026
Dist Mageia Esm H88
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

Severity
important
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Critical

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

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory remote attack important freeciv crash Mageia

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