National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5824

Overview

webserver.c in mt-dappd in Firefly Media Server 0.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and daemon crash) via a stats method action to /xml-rpc with (1) an empty Authorization header line, which triggers a crash in the ws_decodepassword function; or (2) a header line without a ':' character, which triggers a crash in the ws_getheaders function.

Impact

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External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071102 Re: [UPH-07-01] Firefly Media Server DoS

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483215/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071102 [UPH-07-02] Firefly Media Server DoS

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483211/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071102 [UPH-07-01] Firefly Media Server DoS

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483210/100/0/threaded

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 4600

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/4600

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1597

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1597

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30661

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30661

External Source: XF

Name: firefly-decodepassword-dos(38242)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38242

External Source: XF

Name: firefly-getheaders-dos(38241)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38241

External Source: BID

Name: 26309

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26309

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200712-18

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-18.xml

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=98211&release_id=548679

Hyperlink:http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=98211&release_id=548679

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 28269

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/28269

External Source: MISC

Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200110

Hyperlink:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200110