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Vulnerability record · CVE-2007-3917 · published 11 October 2007

CVE-2007-3917: Wesnoth vulnerability

Wesnoth · Wesnoth

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.

7.8 CVSS 2.0 High EPSS 2.1% · top 19.0% CWE-134 · CWE-134
7.8CVSS 2.0 base score
2.1%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
26References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
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
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

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2007-3917), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.