Package : freeciv Vulnerability : denial of service Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-0047 BugTraq ID : 16975 Debian Bug : 355211
Luigi Auriemma discovered a denial of service condition in the free Civilization server that allows a remote user to trigger a server crash.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.1-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.8-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your freeciv-server 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 below:
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 - --------------------------------