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CVE-2012-5645
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…
High7.5EPSS 4.3%
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- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.3% · top 8.9% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- DoS (memory exhaustion or excessive CPU consumption) via malformed network packets
- CWE-400 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-400 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (13)
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5645 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5645 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5645 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/18/5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/31/2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095378.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095381.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/096391.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/22/4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/11 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41352 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696306 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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