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.
Published: 2007-10-11
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: 2.8% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1386-1 New wesnoth packages fix denial of service
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1386-2 New wesnoth packages fix denial of service
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-3901 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T14:37:05.771Z

Reserved: 2007-07-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-3917

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-10-11T10:17:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-3917

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