6747 : Business Objects Crystal Reports/Enterprise Disk Space Exhaustion DoS
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
1	190	over 7 years ago	over 3 years ago	1 times	90%

Timeline

Discovery Date	Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2004-04-20	2004-06-08	2004-06-08

Time to Exploit
49 days

Description

Crystal Reports and Crystal Enterprise contain a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when a remote user repeatedly accesses the crystalimagehandler.aspx script and requests image creation, and will result in loss of availability for the server by exhausting disk space and slowing connections.

Classification

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

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, Business Objects has released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

Business Objects	Crystal Enterprise	10
		9
	Crystal Reports	10
		9

References

Secunia Advisory ID: 11800
ISS X-Force ID: 16046
CVE ID: 2004-1981 (see also: NVD)
Related OSVDB ID: 6748
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-06/0108.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://support.businessobjects.com/fix/hot/critical/bulletins/security_bulletin_june04.asp
Vendor Specific Solution URL: http://support.businessobjects.com/fix/hot/critical/default.asp

Manual Testing Notes

Credit

Moran Surf - adcimperva.com - Imperva Application Defense Center
Amichai Shulman - adcimperva.com - Imperva Application Defense Center

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-05-26 | Disagree?

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