Wednesday, October 20, 2010

freeciv: command execution vulnerability

Users of freeciv please be advised of a command execution vulnerability that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
MDVSA-2010:205: [MDVSA-2010:205] freeciv command execution
Problem Description:



A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in freeciv:



freeciv 2.2 before 2.2.1 and 2.3 before 2.3.0 allows attackers to

read arbitrary files or execute arbitrary commands via scenario

that contains Lua functionality, related to the (1) os, (2) io, (3)

package, (4) dofile, (5) loadfile, (6) loadlib, (7) module, and (8)

require modules or functions (CVE-2010-2445).








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