CVE-2007-3917
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-134
- EPSS score
- 2.1% (82th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-3901)
- Published
- October 11, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-3901 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- wesnoth / wesnoth
- wesnoth / wesnoth
- wesnoth / wesnoth
- wesnoth / wesnoth
- wesnoth / wesnoth
- wesnoth / wesnoth
- wesnoth / wesnoth
- wesnoth / wesnoth
- wesnoth / wesnoth
- wesnoth / wesnoth
- wesnoth / wesnoth
- wesnoth / wesnoth
- wesnoth / wesnoth
- wesnoth / wesnoth
- wesnoth / wesnoth
References
- http://osvdb.org/41711
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27137(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27218(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27241(Vendor Advisory)
- http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/tags/1.2.7/changelog?rev=20982&view=download
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1386
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25995
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3449(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=256618
- http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18188
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=324841
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37047
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00194.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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