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A denial of service flaw was found in the way …

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the server component of Freeciv before 2.3.4 processed certain packets. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted packet that, when processed would lead to memory exhaustion or excessive CPU consumption.

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5645 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5645 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5645 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/18/5 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/31/2 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095378.h… x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095381.h… x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/096391.h… x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/22/4 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/11 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/8 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41352 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696306 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC

Affected products

freeciv

==before 2.3.4

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.freeciv

Multiplayer (or single player), turn-based strategy game

nixos-unstable 3.2.2
- nixpkgs-unstable 3.2.2
- nixos-unstable-small 3.2.2
nixos-25.11 3.2.1
- nixos-25.11-small 3.2.1
- nixpkgs-25.11-darwin 3.2.1

pkgs.freeciv_qt

Multiplayer (or single player), turn-based strategy game

nixos-unstable 3.2.2
- nixpkgs-unstable 3.2.2
- nixos-unstable-small 3.2.2
nixos-25.11 3.2.1
- nixos-25.11-small 3.2.1
- nixpkgs-25.11-darwin 3.2.1

pkgs.freeciv_gtk

Multiplayer (or single player), turn-based strategy game

nixos-unstable 3.2.2
- nixpkgs-unstable 3.2.2
- nixos-unstable-small 3.2.2
nixos-25.11 3.2.1
- nixos-25.11-small 3.2.1
- nixpkgs-25.11-darwin 3.2.1

pkgs.freeciv_sdl2

Multiplayer (or single player), turn-based strategy game

nixos-unstable 3.2.2
- nixpkgs-unstable 3.2.2
- nixos-unstable-small 3.2.2
nixos-25.11 3.2.1
- nixos-25.11-small 3.2.1
- nixpkgs-25.11-darwin 3.2.1

Package maintainers

@nbp Nicolas B. Pierron <nixos@nbp.name>