Bug 1211237 (CVE-2015-0844)

Summary:	CVE-2015-0844 wesnoth: information leak via built-in WML/Lua API
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bruno, gwync
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	wesnoth 1.12.2	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 02:40:48 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1211238, 1211239, 1211240
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-04-13 11:51:37 UTC

A flaw was reported in wesnoth, a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme:

A severe security vulnerability in the game client was found (bug #23440) which could allow a malicious user to obtain personal files and information from other players in networked MP games using the built-in WML/Lua API on any platform.

The flaw affects wesnoth 1.12.1 and wesnoth 1.10.7.

Release announcement:

http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?t=41870
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/1.12.2/changelog

Upstream advisory:

http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?t=41872

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/commit/af61f9fdd15cd439da9e2fe5fa39d174c923eaae

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-04-13 11:52:28 UTC

Created wesnoth tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1211238]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1211239]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1211240]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:40:48 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.