17165 : FlatNuke foot_news.php Direct Request CPU Consumption DoS
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
4	176	over 6 years ago	over 3 years ago	0 times	90%

Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2005-06-06	2005-06-06

Description

Flatnuke contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is due to an unspecified error in "foot_news.php" script that causes high CPU resource consumption when the script is directly called.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.5.4 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

FlatNuke

2.5.3

References

Security Tracker: 1014114
Bugtraq ID: 13882
Secunia Advisory ID: 15603
Related OSVDB ID: 17166 17167 17168 17169 17170 17171 17172
CVE ID: 2005-1892 (see also: NVD)
Vendor URL: http://flatnuke.sourceforge.net/
Other Advisory URL: http://secwatch.org/advisories/secwatch/20050604_flatnuke.txt

Manual Testing Notes

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 6.4
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-06-09 | Disagree?

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