CVE-2012-5645
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: December 30, 2019 at 07:57 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:47 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFedoraFreeciv
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (13)
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095378.htmlx_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095381.htmlx_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/096391.htmlx_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/18/5x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/22/4x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/11x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/8x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/31/2CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400
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