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mt-daapd -- denial of service vulnerability

Affected packages
mt-daapd < 0.2.4.1

Details

VuXML ID a7080c30-91a2-11dc-b2eb-00b0d07e6c7e
Discovery 2007-11-05
Entry 2007-11-12

US-CERT reports:

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.

References

CVE Name CVE-2007-5824