CVE-2007-3917
The multiplayer engine in Wesnoth 1.2.x before 1.2.7 and 1.3.x before 1.3.9 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long message with multibyte characters that can produce an invalid UTF-8 string after it is truncated, which…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.10%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
The multiplayer engine in Wesnoth 1.2.x before 1.2.7 and 1.3.x before 1.3.9 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long message with multibyte characters that can produce an invalid UTF-8 string after it is truncated, which triggers an uncaught exception, involving the truncate_message function in server/server.cpp. NOTE: this issue affects both clients and servers.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.8 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- EPSS
- 2.10% probability · 81th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-134
- Affected
- wesnoth/wesnoth
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://osvdb.org/41711
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27137Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27218Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27241Vendor Advisory
- http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/tags/1.2.7/changelog?rev=20982&view=download
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1386
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25995
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3449Vendor Advisory
- http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=256618
- http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18188
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=324841
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37047
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00194.html
- http://osvdb.org/41711
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27137Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27218Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27241Vendor Advisory
- http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/tags/1.2.7/changelog?rev=20982&view=download
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1386
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25995
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3449Vendor Advisory
- http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=256618
- http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18188
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=324841
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37047
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00194.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.