Package : freeciv Vulnerability : missing bouncary checks Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-3913 BugTraq ID : 19117 Debian Bug : 381378
Luigi Auriemma discovered missing boundary checks in freeciv, a clone of the well known Civilisation game, which can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.1-1sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your freeciv package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------