CVE-2012-5645

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5645

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.3.4-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.3.4-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.3.4-1
debian debiansidfixed2.3.4-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.3.4-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.