Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-0366 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Wesnoth
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The uncompress_buffer function in src/server/simple_wml.cpp in Wesnoth before r33069 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large compressed WML document.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family | Debian Local Security Checks |
NASL id | DEBIAN_DSA-1737.NASL |
description | Several security issues have been discovered in wesnoth, a fantasy turn-based strategy game. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-0366 Daniel Franke discovered that the wesnoth server is prone to a denial of service attack when receiving special crafted compressed data. - CVE-2009-0367 Daniel Franke discovered that the sandbox implementation for the python AIs can be used to execute arbitrary python code on wesnoth clients. In order to prevent this issue, the python support has been disabled. A compatibility patch was included, so that the affected campagne is still working properly. |
last seen | 2020-06-01 |
modified | 2020-06-02 |
plugin id | 35907 |
published | 2009-03-12 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35907 |
title | Debian DSA-1737-1 : wesnoth - several vulnerabilities |
References
- http://launchpad.net/bugs/335089
- http://launchpad.net/bugs/336396
- http://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-0366
- http://osvdb.org/52672
- http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/w/wesnoth/wesnoth_1.4.7-4/changelog
- http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/w/wesnoth/wesnoth_1.5.12-1/changelog
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34236
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34253
- http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/trunk/src/server/simple_wml.cpp?rev=33069&r1=32990&r2=33069
- http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/trunk/src/server/simple_wml.cpp?rev=33069&view=log
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1737
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34085
- https://gna.org/bugs/index.php?13037