CVE-2012-5645

moderate-risk
Published 2019-12-30

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.

Do I need to act?

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6.1% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
7
CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (4)

Freeciv

Affected Vendors

Fedoraproject Freeciv

References (26)

Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095378.ht...
Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095381.ht...
Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/096391.ht...
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/18/5
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/22/4
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/11
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/8
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/31/2
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41352
Broken Link https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5645
Issue Tracking https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696306
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5645
Third Party Advisory https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5645
Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095378.ht...
Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095381.ht...
Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/096391.ht...
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/18/5
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/22/4
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/11
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/8
and 6 more references
45
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 9/34 · Low
Exposure 10/34 · Low