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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-1010: Crossfire server: Denial of Service and potential arbitrary code execution

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-1010: Crossfire server: Denial of Service and potential arbitrary code execution

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/06/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Buffer overflow in socket/request.c in CrossFire before 1.9.0, when oldsocketmode is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute code by sending the server a large request.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-games-server-crossfire-server

References

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