From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2007 - 17:07:06 CDT

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TITLE:
Wesnoth UTF-8 Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27137

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27137/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Wesnoth 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/16022/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Wesnoth, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the
processing of UTF-8 strings within the multiplayer engine . This can
be exploited by malicious clients to crash a vulnerable Wesnoth
client.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.2.7.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.7.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/tags/1.2.7/changelog?rev=20982&view=download

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