40537 : Feng RTSP_utils.c User-Agent Header Handling Remote DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2007-12-27

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2007-6629" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Interpretation conflict in LScube Feng 0.1.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and daemon crash) via a User-Agent header line that contains a carriage-return character, which is considered a line delimiter when the header is split into individual lines, but not when log_user_agent in RTSP_utils.c parses the content of the User-Agent line.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.1.16 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2007-6629 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 28229
Related OSVDB ID: 40532 40533 40534 40535
Other Advisory URL: http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/fengulo-adv.txt
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-12/0318.html
Vendor URL: http://live.polito.it/feng

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-01-04 | Disagree?

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