CVE-2012-5645 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Freeciv versions prior to 2.3.4, affecting products like Fedora and Freeciv itself. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this by sending a specially crafted packet to the server component, leading to memory exhaustion or excessive CPU consumption. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:freeciv:freeciv:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:16:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:17:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:18:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.