CVE-2007-3917 Denial of service in n/a
Remote servers can crash Wesnoth clients and servers by sending long messages with invalid UTF-8 characters, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2007-3917?
CVE-2007-3917 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 11 Oct 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The multiplayer engine in Wesnoth 1.2.x before 1.2.7 and 1.3.x before 1.3.9 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long message with multibyte characters that can produce an invalid UTF-8 string after it is truncated, which triggers an uncaught exception, involving the truncate_message function in server/server.cpp. NOTE: this issue affects both clients and servers.
Weakness: CWE-134
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-3917?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Wesnoth Wesnoth.
How do I fix CVE-2007-3917?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2007-3917 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-3917 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DSA-1386-1, GHSA-5x5x-c9q8-x83f.